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

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

   Synonyms: tame

5. verb. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

   "He tames lions for the circus"

   "reclaim falcons"

   Synonyms: domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame

6. verb. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

   "domesticate oats"

   "tame the soil"

   Synonyms: cultivate, naturalise, naturalize, tame

Synonyms

tame, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, cultivate, naturalise, naturalize

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in domesticate:

comediettas

Common word forms

domesticated, domesticates, domesticating

Words from these letters

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