domesticate
Plural: domesticates
Verb
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- "domesticate oats"
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"
- To make domestic.
- To make (more) fit for domestic life.
- To adapt to live with humans.
- To adapt to live with humans.
- To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
Noun
- An animal or plant that has been domesticated.
Examples
- Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.
- The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
cultivate, domesticise, domesticize, naturalise, naturalize, reclaim, tame
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 16
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