domesticateverb [ T often passive ]
uk/dəˈmes.tɪ.keɪt/us/dəˈmes.tɪ.keɪt/to bring animals or plants under human control in order to provide food, power, or company:
Dogs were probably the first animals to be domesticated.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- polymorphous
- reverse
- swing
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
- turn (sb/sth) into sb/sth
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