We didn't domesticate cats; cats domesticated us.
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Domesticate
/dəˈmɛ.stɪ.keɪt/
Synonyms for "domesticate" (91 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (45)
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6 entriesCollocations
6 entriesanimal domesticationcrop domesticationdomesticated animalsdomesticated plantsdomesticated speciesdomestication process
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
2 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 26 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- ընտելանալ verb ((intransitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- ընտելացնել verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Catalan
1 entries- domesticar verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Danish
4 entries- domesticere verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- gøre til husdyr verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- tæmme verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- tæmme verb ((intransitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Dutch
1 entries- domesticeren verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
French
1 entries- domestiquer verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Galician
1 entries- domesticar verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
German
1 entries- domestizieren verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Greek
1 entries- εξημερώνω verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Hungarian
2 entries- domesztikál verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- háziasít verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Icelandic
1 entries- temja verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Ido
2 entries- domestikeskar verb ((intransitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- domestikigar verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Italian
2 entries- addomesticare verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- domesticare verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Japanese
1 entries- 馴らす verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Middle English
1 entries- daunten verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- domestisere verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Old English
1 entries- temian verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Polish
4 entries- udamawiać verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- udamawiać się verb ((intransitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- udomawiać verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- udomawiać się verb ((intransitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Portuguese
2 entries- domesticar verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- domesticar-se verb ((intransitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Quechua
1 entries- uyway verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Romanian
1 entries- domestici verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Russian
2 entries- одома́шнивать verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- одома́шнить verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Spanish
2 entries- domesticar verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- domesticarse verb ((intransitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Swedish
1 entries- domesticera verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Turkish
4 entries- ehlileşmek verb ((intransitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- ehlileştirmek verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- evcilleşmek verb ((intransitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- evcilleştirmek verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Ukrainian
2 entries- одома́шнити verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
- одома́шнювати verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thuần hoá verb ((transitive) to adapt to live with humans)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
"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."
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The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.
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Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.
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