meaning of domesticate

1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate ones self.
2.
To cause to be, as it were, of ones family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
3.
To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
4.
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"


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