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Meaning of 'domesticate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Domesticate [ a.]
- To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
- To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
- To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.

Meaning of 'domesticate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . domesticate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
Example in sentence:
  • domesticate oats;
  • tame the soil
Meaning (2):
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
Example in sentence:
  • He tames lions for the circus;
  • reclaim falcons
Meaning (3):
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
Example in sentence:
  • The horse was domesticated a long time ago;
  • The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog

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