domesticate
English
WOTD – 19 May 2006
Etymology
domestic + -ate
Pronunciation
- (verb) IPA(key): /dəˈmɛ.stɪ.keɪt/, /-stə-/
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- (noun) IPA(key): /dəˈmɛ.stɪ.kət/, /-stə-/, /-kɪt/
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Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: do‧mes‧ti‧cate
Verb
domesticate (third-person singular simple present domesticates, present participle domesticating, simple past and past participle domesticated)
- (transitive) To make domestic.
- (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.
- 2020, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4263: Peer Decompression:
- "To answer your question, Tai's fine. She mostly just smokes socially these days." "You're domesticating her!" "We're domesticating each other. The other day I found myself reading a home decorating blog."
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- (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.
- (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.
- (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- (transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
- Antonym: foreignize
Translations
to make domestic
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to make fit for domestic life
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(transitive) to adapt to live with humans
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(intransitive) to adapt to live with humans
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Noun
domesticate (plural domesticates)
- An animal or plant that has been domesticated.
Related terms
- domesticated
- domestication
Anagrams
- coestimated, comediettas
Italian
Verb
domesticate
- inflection of domesticare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Participle
domesticate f pl
- feminine plural of domesticato