Found 2 items, similar to domesticate.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: domesticate domesticate v 1: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; “domesticate oats”; “tame the soil” [syn: cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame] 2: overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; “He tames lions for the circus”; “reclaim falcons” [syn: domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame] 3: 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” [syn: tame]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Domesticate Domesticate \Do*mes"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Domesticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Domesticating.] [LL. domesticatus, p. p. of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See Domestic, a.] 1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. [1913 Webster] 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant. [1913 Webster]