DOMESTICATE

domesticate, tame

(verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; “The horse was domesticated a long time ago”; “The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog”

domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame

(verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; “He tames lions for the circus”; “reclaim falcons”

domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame

(verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; “domesticate oats”; “tame the soil”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

domesticate (third-person singular simple present domesticates, present participle domesticating, simple past and past participle domesticated)

(transitive) To make domestic.

(transitive) To make fit for domestic life.

(transitive) To adapt to live with humans.

(intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.

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

(transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.

Antonym: foreignize

Noun

domesticate (plural domesticates)

An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

Anagrams

• coestimated, comediettas

Source: Wiktionary

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Do*mes"ti*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Domesticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Domesticating.] Etym: [LL. domesticatus, p. p. of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See Domestic, a.]

1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.

3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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