domesticate

domesticate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
  2. 2.To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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