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Domesticate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To cause to feel comfortable at home; make domestic.

v. To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life.

v. To train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans.

v. To introduce and accustom (an animal or plant) into another region; naturalize.

v. To bring down to the level of the ordinary person.

n. A plant or animal that has been adapted to live in a human environment.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To make domestic.

v. To make fit for domestic life.

v. To adapt to live with humans.

v. To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.

n. An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make domestic; to habituate to home life.

v. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country.

v. To tame or reclaim from a wild state

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make domestic; accustom to remain much at home: as, to domesticate one's self.

To make an inmate of a household; associate in family life; hence, to make intimate or cause to become familiar, as if at home.

To convert to domestic uses, as wild animals or plants; tame or bring under control or cultivation; reclaim from a state of nature.

To live much at home; lead a quiet home life; become a member of a family circle.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

v. make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans

v. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

Word Usage

"Debates about translation have been raging since the Romans, and, crudely, they all come down to the same decision: whether to "domesticate" the translation or to "foreignise" it."

Verb Form

domesticated domesticates domesticating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

accommodate adapt

Cross Reference

tame

Form

domesticated domesticating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

domesticize civilize naturalize