Definitions for domesticate

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domesticate do·mes·ti·cate

Spelling: [duh-mes-ti-keyt]

IPA: /dəˈmɛs tɪˌkeɪt/

Domesticate is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 958 anagrams from letters in domesticate (acdeeimostt).

Definitions for domesticate

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.
6. to make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like:

verb (used without object)

1. to be domestic.

Origin of domesticate

1635-45; Medieval Latin domesticātus (past participle of domesticāre), equivalent to domestic- domestic + -ātus -a

Examples for domesticate

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me.

By marginalizing certain political tendencies, the European approach makes it harder to domesticate them.

It is tailless and very fierce and difficult to domesticate.

Luxuriant vegetation, but no animal life, so we had no animals to domesticate.

We often tried to domesticate it in our garden, but the plants invariably died.

Returning to Rome or Baiae, you must domesticate and tame them.

As Sandra Bullock has found out, any attempt to domesticate them will end in a resounding failure.

It took him but a few days to domesticate himself in both the Rawdon houses.

From time to time we acclimatize and domesticate some foreign and wild species.

There is, therefore, only one thing to do, and that is to domesticate him.