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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.
EXPANDto take (something foreign, unfamiliar, etc.) for one's own use or purposes; adopt.
6.
COLLAPSEto make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like: to domesticate radical ideas.
verb (used without object)
7.
to be domestic.
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Origin:
1635–45; < Medieval Latin domesticātus (past participle of domesticāre), equivalent to domestic- domestic + -ātus -ate1
1635–45; < Medieval Latin domesticātus (past participle of domesticāre), equivalent to domestic- domestic + -ātus -ate1
Related forms
do·mes·ti·ca·tion, noun
do·mes·ti·ca·tive, adjective
do·mes·ti·ca·tor, noun
non·do·mes·ti·cat·ed, adjective
EXPANDnon·do·mes·ti·cat·ing, adjective
o·ver·do·mes·ti·cate, verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.
un·do·mes·ti·ca·ble, adjective
un·do·mes·ti·cat·ed, adjective
well-do·mes·ti·cat·ed, adjective
COLLAPSE
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Example Sentences
- Stone's movie, there is the danger of trying to domesticate an overwhelming tragedy.
- When the glaciers began to melt and the climate to improve, several groups learned how to grow crops and domesticate animals.
- Only a tiny fraction of wild plants and animals were both useful and possible to domesticate.
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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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