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domesticate English

Meaning domesticate meaning

What does domesticate mean?

domesticate

— verb (= tame) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment domesticate oats tame the soil — verb (= tame) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans The horse was domesticated a long time ago The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog — verb (= reclaim, tame) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable He tames lions for the circus reclaim falcons

Synonyms domesticate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as domesticate?

domesticate English » English

tame train reclaim domesticize domesticise win over naturalize naturalise cultivate tend tam rear raise nurture make fit in house-train get accustomed to gentle control civilize care for breed break in break be tame be gentle be docile

Topics domesticate topics

What do people use domesticate to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal

Types of animals
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Domesticated animal
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals

Conjugation domesticate conjugation

How do you conjugate domesticate?

domesticate · verb

Examples domesticate examples

How do I use domesticate in a sentence?

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I want to domesticate him.
We have been unable to domesticate the most backward people in the world - the Australian Aborigine.
I haven't told him yet. but, Viv, I'm so ready to domesticate.
But you let him domesticate you.
Which was the second species of animal for humans to domesticate after the dog?
Gradually, as my choir gets better I domesticate my new student.
But if farm animals were so useful, why didn't New Guineans domesticate any of their own?
And over the years, humans have probably tried to domesticate all of them, usually without success.
They couldn't domesticate them, so they destroyed them.
That's why we were able to domesticate them.
Or, since we cannot simply get rid of it, how to domesticate it, how to transform this voice nonetheless into the means of expressing humanity, love and so on.
You're confident you can domesticate them?
Along the way, I smoke. Stop trying to domesticate me.
I'm not trying to domesticate.
With few easy to domesticate plants and animals of their own, they remain tied to more ancient ways of life.
Did you really think that you could domesticate him?
Debbie, the woman I live with, is interested in procuring an animal for us to domesticate.
Those feral pigs in the forest, it doesn't take much to domesticate them.
I'll domesticate you boys yet.
Domesticate her.
We're all waiting for a buyer to domesticate us.
It is domesticate it. The servant.
Then the Mademoiselle Trotter came, domesticate it.
Stop trying to domesticate me.
Don't try to, um, domesticate him.
Hippie babe over towards Berea. The type you just want to shave down and domesticate.
Someone should domesticate these animals.

News and current affairs

Governments with a mandate to domesticate financial markets appear to have produced a lot of sound and fury, but little reform.
It did not aim to domesticate global finance, and it was not based on a thorough analysis of the crisis.

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