domesticate
Syllables: do·mes·ti·cate/dəˈmɛ.stɪ.keɪt/
domesticate verb: to make domestic.
Verb
domesticate (third-person singular simple present domesticates, present participle domesticating, simple past and past participle domesticated)
- To make domestic.
- To make (more) fit for domestic life.
- "To answer your question, Tai's fine. She mostly just smokes socially these days." "You're domesticating her!" "We're domesticating each other. The other day I found myself reading a home decorating blog."2020, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4263: Peer Decompression
- To adapt to live with humans.
- The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.
- To adapt to live with humans.
- Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.
- To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
- Antonyms:
- foreignize
Noun
IPA/dəˈmɛ.stɪ.kət/
domesticate (plural domesticates)
domesticate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
domesticate in Tamil
- விலங்குகள், செடிகள் முதலியவற்றை வீடு, பண்ணை முதலிய பயன்பாட்டுக்கு பழக்கு, மாற்று, அடக்கு, சாதுவாக்கு
domesticate in Urdu
- ہلانا, پالتو بنانا, پرچانا
domesticate in Malayalam
- മെരുക്കുക, പരിഷ്കരിക്കുക, സാമൂഹ്യവത്കരിക്കുക, ഇണക്കുക
domesticate in Kannada
- ಪಳಗಿಸು, ಹಳಗಿಸು, ಒಗ್ಗುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡು, ಗೃಹಕೃತ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಒಗ್ಗಿಸು, ಗೃಹಾಸಕ್ತಿ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಸು
More languagesFewer languages
- domesticate in Vietnamese
- thuần hoá
Examples of domesticate in a sentence
- China has succeeded in domesticating musk deer and obtaining the musk while the animal is alive.
- Why on earth did Dog domesticate the man?
- As they began to settle down with agriculture ie domesticating plants, they also learned to domesticate animals, such as Meitei hui (dog) from wild wolves.
Antonyms of domesticate
Forms of domesticate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | domesticates |
| present participle | domesticating |
| past participle | domesticated |
| past | domesticated |
| Noun | |
| plural | domesticates |
Origin of domesticate
First attested in 1620; either borrowed from Middle French domestiquer (Modern French domestiquer) or directly from Medieval Latin domesticātus, perfect passive participle of domesticō (“to domesticate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, domestic + -ate.
First attested in 1860; borrowed from Medieval Latin domesticātus (“domesticated”), see Etymology 1 and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Words formed from domesticate
Questions about domesticate
- What does domesticate mean?
- Domesticate means to make domestic.
- What is domesticate in Tamil?
- Domesticate in Tamil is விலங்குகள், செடிகள் முதலியவற்றை வீடு, பண்ணை முதலிய பயன்பாட்டுக்கு பழக்கு. See Domesticate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is domesticate?
- Domesticate can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce domesticate?
- Domesticate is pronounced /dəˈmɛ.stɪ.keɪt/.
- What is the past tense of domesticate?
- The past tense of domesticate is domesticated.
Words near domesticate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: domesticate (page history and authors); domesticate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); domesticate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); domesticate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); domesticate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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