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undomesticated

[duh-mes-ti-keyt] Origin

do·mes·ti·cate

[duh-mes-ti-keyt] verb, do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing.
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.
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6.
to make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like: to domesticate radical ideas.
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verb (used without object)
7.
to be domestic.

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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

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), o·ver·do·mes·ti·cat·ed, o·ver·do·mes·ti·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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undomesticated
1834, from un- (1) "not" + pp. of domesticate (see domestic). Undomestic "not caring for home life" is recorded from 1754.
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