Dictionary Entry
domesticate
domesticate is a 11-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
- 2adjective
To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
- 3adjective
To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
- 4verb
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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- 5verb
overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
"He tames lions for the circus"
"reclaim falcons"
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- 6verb
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
"domesticate oats"
"tame the soil"
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