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do·mes·ti·cate
 domesticate
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- pronunciation:
- d
me
st
keIt
- features:
- Word Parts
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verb |
| inflections: |
domesticates, domesticating, domesticated |
| definition: |
When people domesticate animals, they make them able to live with humans and be pets or working animals. After animals are domesticated, they are not wild anymore.
Cats were first domesticated thousands of years ago.- similar words:
- tame
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| related words: |
train |
| derivations: |
domesticated (adj.), domestication (n.) |
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