verb [VN]
1 to make a wild animal used to living with or working for humans
2 to grow plants or crops for human use
SYNCULTIVATE
3 (often humorous) to make sb good at cooking, caring for a house, etc.; to make sb enjoy home life:
Some men are very hard to domesticate.
domesticated adjective:
domesticated animals * They've become a lot more domesticated since they got married.
domestication noun [U]:
the domestication of cattle
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