domesticating

Verb

domesticate (third-person singular simple present domesticates, present participle domesticating, simple past and past participle domesticated)

1. (transitive) To make domestic.
2. (transitive) 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
3. (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
   • The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.
4. (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
   • Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.
5. (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
6. (transitive) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.

   Antonyms:

   foreignize

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