Synonyms of the word domesticate


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domesticate

  • v. (transitive) To make domestic.
  • v. (transitive) To make fit for domestic life.
  • v. (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
  • v. (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
  • v. (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one…
  • n. An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

accommodate

  • v. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
  • v. (transitive) To provide housing for.
  • v. (transitive) to provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
  • v. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige;.
  • v. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings…
  • v. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
  • v. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
  • adj. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

adapt

  • v. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
  • v. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
  • v. (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.
  • adj. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

cultivate

  • v. To grow plants, notably crops.
  • v. To nurture; to foster; to tend.
  • v. To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.

domesticise

  • v. Alternative form of domesticize.

domesticize

  • v. To make domestic; domesticate.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

naturalise

  • v. Alternative spelling of naturalize.

naturalize

  • v. To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
  • v. To acclimatize an animal or plant.
  • v. To make natural.
  • v. To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
  • v. (linguistics) To make (a word) a natural part of the language.

reclaim

  • v. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
  • v. (transitive) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
  • v. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
  • v. (transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
  • v. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  • v. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
  • n. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
  • n. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
  • n. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

tame

  • adj. Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
  • adj. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
  • adj. Not exciting.
  • adj. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
  • v. (transitive) to make something tame.
  • v. (intransitive) to become tame.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute;…

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