What is the meaning of Domesticate?

  • (a.) To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
  • (a.) To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
  • (a.) To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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