domesticate

verbtame; habituate

Synonyms for domesticate

verb tame; habituate

Antonyms for domesticate

Word Origin & History

1630s, of animals; 1741, of persons, "to cause to be attached to home and family;" from Medieval Latin domesticatus, past participle of domesticare "to tame," literally "to dwell in a house," from domesticus (see domestic). Related: Domesticated; domesticating.

Example Sentences for domesticate

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

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

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

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

It is tailless and very fierce and difficult to domesticate.

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

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

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

Attempts to domesticate it in southern India have proved unsuccessful.

And thus, in a fight, ended one of the earliest attempts to domesticate the dog.

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Synonyms for domesticate

Antonyms for domesticate

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