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domesticated

[duh-mes-ti-keyt]

verb (used with object)

to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.

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.

to adapt (a plant) so as to be cultivated by and beneficial to human beings.

to accustom to household life or affairs.

to take (something foreign, unfamiliar, etc.) for one's own use or purposes; adopt.

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to make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like: to domesticate radical ideas.

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verb (used without object)

to be domestic.

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Origin:
1635–45; < Medieval Latin domesticātus (past participle of domesticāre), equivalent to domestic- domestic + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

do·mes·ti·ca·ble

[duh-mes-ti-kuh-buhl] , adjective

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

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non·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

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Example Sentences

Instead, they domesticated themselves and chose their own mates without human interference.

Of course, how domesticated animals ought to be treated should, must and is being widely debated.

Before they became domesticated crops, wild bananas were inedible fruit stuffed with stony seeds.

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Instead, they domesticated themselves and chose their own mates without human interference.

Of course, how domesticated animals ought to be treated should, must and is being widely debated.

Before they became domesticated crops, wild bananas were inedible fruit stuffed with stony seeds.

The animals are currently domesticated enough to serve as house pets.

Unlike other domesticated creatures, the house cat contributes little to human survival.

Thus bottle gourds are one of the oldest domesticated species.

We hear plenty about species going extinct, but much less about particular breeds of animals, especially those we've domesticated.

Belyaev's hypothesis was that all domesticated species had been selected for a single criterion: tameness.

It is the product of random mutation followed by selective breeding-as, indeed, are all domesticated creatures.

Asian elephants have been domesticated for thousands of years.

And such knowledge might help solve the long-disputed question of exactly why dogs were the first animal to be domesticated.

There the domesticated animals displace the wildlife and degrade the land.

Remember that people used to believe they could clean their floors without domesticated cyclones.

The region also produced the first domesticated sheep, goats, pigs and cattle.

Animals rarely get fat, even when food is abundant, unless they are old and domesticated.

Horses were among the last species of livestock to be domesticated.

Well, the excellent researchers seem to have missed the fact that it is the humans who were domesticated by the felines.

Breeding domesticated pets with their wild cousins seems to be a new trend in pet rearing.

And often there exists no surviving wild ancestor of a domesticated species, as is the case for cattle.

But when kept in the laboratory, subsequent generations soon become domesticated.

But now some domesticated ducks have developed resistance to the disease.

Sheep and goat were also domesticated in this region.

It was quickly put to use in war, on chariots pulled by recently domesticated donkeys.

Some argue whether domesticated beach plums can have the pungent taste of the wild.

Farm animals were domesticated because they were suitable to begin with, and only got more so over time.

But there is another possible carrier of the virus far more difficult to control than domesticated chickens: migratory birds.

Another way to look at this is to consider the question who domesticated who.

The disease can lurk unnoticed in domesticated birds for long periods.

Wild birds that carry the disease have been seen drinking alongside domesticated birds at scarce water sources.

Zoonotic diseases for example from domesticated pets.

Even among domesticated animals, the dog stands out as perhaps the only fully domesticated species.

Television has domesticated other disruptive technologies.

The researcher says he next plans to investigate where and when the household cat was domesticated.

Our domesticated predators--dogs and cats--also have a share in the mayhem.

Several say the paper misinterpreted the genetics and history of the kouprey, which may still exist in domesticated form.

In parallel, the population is encouraged to be progressively less and less self reliant, more domesticated.

Our domesticated animals know a comparatively easy life compared with the existence of prey animals in the wild.

Domesticated livestock are responsible for about a third of all methane production related to human activities.

Now monetary power is way more powerful, because you can create domesticated slaves.

It was obviously domesticated camels who were important in the formation of the culture.

After their forebears were nearly hunted to extinction, many domesticated birds were released into.

Using a new set of criteria, researchers have determined that animals were domesticated much earlier than previously thought.

American academics have domesticated these radical totalitarian thinkers by blending them with an ersatz individualism.

After a few generations they will be a domesticated breed that will not have to go out hunting any more.

The things that the twenty first century is doing that are genuinely novel, that have not been domesticated or brought into.

Three studies shed light on the questions of when, where and how dogs were first domesticated from wolves.

The urban environment is not the natural environment of the domesticated cat and so they are poorly equipped to survive there.

He then explains how he would go into the forest with several domesticated elephants and look for a herd of wild pachyderms.

New technologies, new breeds and newly domesticated species of fish offer great hope for the future.

But researchers have also stumbled across hints that cats were domesticated much earlier.

Like others in the camp, the elephants are domesticated and may perform chores such as giving rides to tourists.

Thought to be domesticated dogs gone feral, wild dogs have borne the brunt of.

Others say dogs domesticated themselves by adapting to a new niche-human refuse dumps.

Moses' paintings are rarely without people or buildings-Moses' landscapes are domesticated.

Some owners, tired of their domesticated doggies, are signing up for programs that test hunting and herding skills.

God answers by telling him to put domesticated birds on different locations and calling them back from where they are.

Chronic renal failure is common in domesticated cats and can be fatal.

These are actually the last wild camels in the world, because all other camels are domesticated.

Similar caveats lie with domesticated milk and meat consumption.

Free range is ultimately an arbitrary point between the wild and the domesticated.

Accounts abound of both domesticated and wild animals behaving oddly before major natural disasters.

Instead they're growing fat and domesticated on sugars and saturated fats.

Proof that this civilization is a matriarchy is the presence of a tribe of wimpy, domesticated men called the.

The majority of wild cats, though, cannot be domesticated.

Don't be fooled by those big soft eyes and long lashes: ostriches may be domesticated but they're not tame.

Expansion of domesticated animal populations has created tension over land use for pasture, agriculture, and wildlife habitat d.

Stanzione spins that notion on its domesticated head.

They rival the development of wheat and barley as the world's first domesticated crop.

Domesticated horses graze along a dirt road outside of the town center.

Humans transformed wild canids into the first domesticated animal.

Two teenagers try to return a domesticated lion to the wild.

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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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