to domesticate
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4.1
- verb
- /dəˈmɛstəˌkeɪt/
- Specialized
- Over centuries, humans have learned to domesticate various animals for companionship and work.
- domesticate animals
- domesticate livestock
- domesticate crops
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Watch on YouTubeAnd for that, my simple explanation is that they are domesticating us.
- And for that, my simple explanation is that they are domesticating us.
- Just to, just to, to, you know, that's how, for example, we domesticate dogs, right?
- People on the western EUR Asian steppe domesticated horses.
- The other thing we notice is when we domesticate them, they outperform their wild cousins.
- So measles went from cows to humans when humans learn to domesticate cows and and started gathering in big cities.
- So similar to how we domesticated wolves and turn them into dogs that are very clear in their expression, they're very aligned, right?
- And then suddenly man figured out how to domesticate animals and agriculture evolved and LED to civilization.
- We had then we had land, We had domesticated animals and for the first time private property came into play.
Examples
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And then suddenly man figured out how to domesticate animals and agriculture evolved and LED to civilization.
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The place where the plant or animal was domesticated was also identified.
Academic text (1992) -
The other thing we notice is when we domesticate them, they outperform their wild cousins.
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People of sense and good judgment do not attempt to domesticate a griffin.
Fiction book (1995) -
Just to, just to, to, you know, that's how, for example, we domesticate dogs, right?
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We also started to domesticate animals, and so viruses that were living in animals in the past started to infect humans.
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A chicken is a widely domesticated Earth fowl.
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Rice is simply declared to have been domesticated in midlatitude China, not tropical Asia.
Academic text (1999) -
When the Yayoi brought domesticated rice from the mainland to Japan, they changed the islands forever.
Academic text (2008) -
Its people were semi nomadic pastoralists who domesticated cattle, dogs and above all horses.
Synonyms
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3.0
To make something less wild or strong
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8.5
To make a wild animal or plant tame so it can live with people and provide food
To make a wild animal calm and accept people
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Morphology
Etymology
Domesticate comes from the Latin word domus, which means 'home'. So to domesticate a plant or animal is to bring it into people's 'home' — to tame or grow it for human use, which explains the modern meaning.