Domesticate /(?)/

Do·mes·ti·cate

Domesticate

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Domesticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Domesticating.

  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.