- past participle of domesticate.
- past tense form of domesticate.
domesticated
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Dusky farmerfish in East Asia grow “crops” of red algae by assiduously “weeding out less palatable foods” and have effectively domesticated a type of shrimp whose waste fertilizes the algae and boosts yields.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
But there’s also some solid evidence that humans domesticated ourselves, selecting tameness over aggression.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
They also found that Przewalski's horses, a species closely related to domesticated horses, produce whinnies that include biphonation.
From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026
Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025
As if he’d been a circus beast trained to behave like a domesticated creature, the mammoth dog left the dead man’s side and slipped out of our car through the opposite rear window.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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