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Meanings of domesticate in English
To make obedient, docile and tractable; to train to follow orders of the owner.
Catalan
naturalitzar Usage of domesticate in English
1
My dear fellow, how did the Normans domesticate the proud, numerous Saxons?
2
Take them home and domesticate them, and you will see surprising things.
3
There's no way you can domesticate these cats 100 per cent.
4
It's believed cats are the only domestic animals that humans didn't actively domesticate.
5
Why have we failed to domesticate such a prized food source as acorns?
6
Why did we take so long to domesticate strawberries and raspberries?
7
Why did the native peoples of southern Africa not domesticate sorghum for themselves?
8
These four were evidently among the easiest to domesticate of all wild fruits.
9
The problem has been to domesticate Europe, not to get rid of her.
10
Yet some of the world's failures to domesticate wild plants remain hard to explain.
11
Since birth he has resisted all attempts to domesticate him.
12
It's a neat thought that we did not domesticate wheat.
13
It became necessary therefore, that for a time I should domesticate myself at Rome.
14
Better follow the Senator's advice and domesticate our Western ones.
15
And thus, in a fight, ended one of the earliest attempts to domesticate the dog.
16
And from what I recall of the studies done, they don't domesticate or train easily.
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Portuguese
Domesticate through the time