Third-person singular present tense of civilise; causes to become civilised. British spelling.
From civilise + -s (third-person singular). Standard verb conjugation.
The verb form 'civilises' appears frequently in 19th-century literature where Victorian writers celebrate how 'civilization civilises the savage'—reading these texts now reveals how language embedded racism and colonial assumptions into everyday speech.
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