to domesticate

Definition von to domesticate im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: domiciliate; To adapt to live with humans
The Russian claims to have successfully domesticated foxes.; To make domestic; To make fit for domestic life; {v} to make domestic or tame; When people domesticate wild animals or plants, they bring them under control and use them to produce food or as pets. We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting. = tame. to make an animal able to work for people or live with them as a pet tame; {f} domesticize, tame an animal, house-train, accustom to life with mankind; adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"; An animal or plant that has been domesticated; To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created; To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant; make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"; To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self; overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"; adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil; To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word