DOMESTICATE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

2.
v.

To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.

3.
v.

To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.