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Domesticate

//dəˈmɛ.stɪ.keɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An animal or plant that has been domesticated.
Verb
  1. 1
    To make domestic. transitive
  2. 2
    make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans wordnet
  3. 3
    To make (more) fit for domestic life. transitive

    ""To answer your question, Tai's fine. She mostly just smokes socially these days." "You're domesticating her!" "We're domesticating each other. The other day I found myself reading a home decorating blog.""

  4. 4
    overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable wordnet
  5. 5
    To adapt to live with humans. transitive

    "The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes."

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  1. 6
    adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment wordnet
  2. 7
    To adapt to live with humans. intransitive

    "Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats."

  3. 8
    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
  4. 9
    To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

First attested in 1620; either borrowed from Middle French domestiquer (Modern French domestiquer) or directly from Medieval Latin domesticātus, perfect passive participle of domesticō (“to domesticate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, domestic + -ate.

Etymology 2

First attested in 1860; borrowed from Medieval Latin domesticātus (“domesticated”), see Etymology 1 and -ate (noun-forming suffix).

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