domesticate

Speech parts

1. domesticate - Noun

2. domesticate - Adjective

3. domesticate - Verb

Meaning

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.

To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cultivate reclaim tame naturalize domesticize naturalise domesticise harden burrow bivouac break condition establish train master
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Antonyms

savage prevent damage fight combat perfect
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Hypernyms

change accommodate alter modify adapt

Hyponyms

break break in

Derivatives

domesticated domesticating.

Anagrams

coestimated

Examples

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey. Orson Scott Card

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. Abu Bakar Bashir

Logically, humanity itself will also become a domesticate of this order as the world of production processes us as much as it degrades and deforms every other natural system. John Zerzan

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. John W. Gardner

We rebel against the impossible. I sense a wish in some professional religion-mongers to make God possible, to make him comprehensible to the naked intellect, domesticate him so that he's easy to believe in. Madeleine L'Engle

Women are supposed to domesticate men. List the countries where they treat women like dirt, and then list the crude, warlike, and brutal countries. Same list, yes? John C. Wright

Close letter words and terms

domestically domesticant domesticatable domesticated domesticated animal domesticated animal species