domesticate

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To make domestic.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To make fit for domestic life.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
  6. Noun.  An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

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