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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Domesticate \Do*mes"ti*cate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Domesticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Domesticating.}] [LL. domesticatus, p. p. of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See {Domestic}, adjective]
1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
domesticated \domesticated\ adjective
1. tame, tamed; -- of animals. Opposite of {wild}.
Syn: domestic. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
2. accustomed to home life; as, some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it. [WordNet 1.5]
3. acclimated to a new environment; -- of plants or animals.
Syn: naturalized, nonnative. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
domesticated
adjective
1: converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize" [syn: {domestic}]
2: accustomed to home life; "some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "domesticated": broken, brought low, chastened, crushed, domestic, dovelike, gentle, housebroke, housebroken, humble, humbled, humiliated, lamblike, made to grovel, meek, mild, pacific, peaceable, quelled, quiet, reduced, subdued, submissive, tame, tamed
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