domesticate
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tɪˌkeɪt verb (used with object)
1.
to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
2.
to tame (an animal), especially by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild.
3.
to adapt (a plant) so as to be cultivated by and beneficial to human beings.
4.
to accustom to household life or affairs.
5.
to take (something foreign, unfamiliar, etc.) for one's own use or purposes; adopt.
verb (used without object)
7.
to be domestic.
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domesticate or domesticize (dəˈmɛstɪˌkeɪt, dəˈmɛstɪˌsaɪz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to bring or keep (wild animals or plants) under control or cultivation |
| 2. | to accustom to home life |
| 3. | to adapt to an environment: to domesticate foreign trees |
| domesticize or domesticize | |
| —vb | |
| do'mesticable or domesticize | |
| —adj | |
| domesti'cation or domesticize | |
| —n | |
| do'mesticative or domesticize | |
| —adj | |
| do'mesticator or domesticize | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
domesticate
1630s, of animals; 1741, of persons, "to cause to be attached to home and family;" from pp. stem of M.L. domesticare "to dwell in a house," from domesticus (see domestic). Related: Domesticated; domestication.
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Example sentences
Don't think you can domesticate it, because you can't.
No way to relate to it, and therefore no way to mentally domesticate it.
Their efforts to domesticate emotion with reason were regularly foiled by insurrections of the heart.
When the glaciers began to melt and the climate to improve, several groups learned how to grow crops and domesticate animals.
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