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domesticate

verb
🔊/dəˈmestɪkeɪt/
🔊/dəˈmestɪkeɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they domesticate
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he / she / it domesticates
🔊/dəˈmestɪkeɪts/
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past simple domesticated
🔊/dəˈmestɪkeɪtɪd/
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past participle domesticated
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-ing form domesticating
🔊/dəˈmestɪkeɪtɪŋ/
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  1. [often passive] to make a wild animal used to living with or working for humans驯养，驯化（动物）
    • be domesticated Mammals were first domesticated for their milk.哺乳动物最初被驯养是为了取奶。
    Topics Animalsc1
  2. [often passive] to grow plants or crops for human use, especially for the first time驯化（植物）；栽培（农作物）
    • be domesticated Corn was domesticated more than 6 000 years ago.玉米已经被驯化了六千多年前。
  3. domesticate somebody (often humorous) to make somebody good at cooking, caring for a house, etc.; to make somebody enjoy home life使精于家务；使喜家居
    • Some men are very hard to domesticate.有些男人很难做好家务活。🔊🔊
    4. Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin domesticat- ‘domesticated’, from the verb domesticare, from Latin domesticus ‘belonging to the house’, from domus ‘house’.