domesticate








verb (used with object), do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing.

  1. to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  2. to tame (an animal), especially by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild.
  3. to adapt (a plant) so as to be cultivated by and beneficial to human beings.
  4. to accustom to household life or affairs.
  5. to take (something foreign, unfamiliar, etc.) for one’s own use or purposes; adopt.
  6. to make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like: to domesticate radical ideas.

verb (used without object), do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing.

  1. to be domestic.

verb (tr)

  1. to bring or keep (wild animals or plants) under control or cultivation
  2. to accustom to home life
  3. to adapt to an environmentto domesticate foreign trees
v.

1630s, of animals; 1741, of persons, “to cause to be attached to home and family;” from Medieval Latin domesticatus, past participle of domesticare “to tame,” literally “to dwell in a house,” from domesticus (see domestic). Related: Domesticated; domesticating.

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