domesticate

Verbs

  • (v) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
    • domesticate oats
    • tame the soil
    tame, cultivate, naturalise, naturalize,
  • (v) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
    • He tames lions for the circus
    • reclaim falcons
    domesticise, domesticize, tame, reclaim,
  • (v) 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
    tame,

Synonyms

tame cultivate naturalise naturalize domesticise domesticize reclaim

Words of close approximity

domesticated domesticated animal domesticated silkworm moth