Domesticate

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  • transitive verb. To cause to feel comfortable at home; make domestic.
  • transitive verb. To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans.
  • transitive verb. To introduce and accustom (an animal or plant) into another region; naturalize.
  • noun. A plant or animal that has been adapted to live in a human environment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make domestic; accustom to remain much at home: as, to domesticate one's self.
  • To make an inmate of a household; associate in family life; hence, to make intimate or cause to become familiar, as if at home.
  • To convert to domestic uses, as wild animals or plants; tame or bring under control or cultivation; reclaim from a state of nature.
  • To live much at home; lead a quiet home life; become a member of a family circle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make domestic; to habituate to home life.
  • transitive verb. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country.
  • transitive verb. To tame or reclaim from a wild state
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make domestic.
  • verb. To make fit for domestic life.
  • verb. To adapt to live with humans.
  • verb. To adapt to live with humans.
  • verb. To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
  • noun. An animal or plant that has been domesticated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
  • verb. make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
  • verb. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
  • Word Usage
    "Despite its flaws, the rabbit is comparatively easy to domesticate, which is one reason people have been particularly eager over the past year, the Year of the Tiger, to buy bunnies."
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    tame  
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