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What is the verb for domestic?

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domesticate
  1. (transitive) To make domestic.
  2. (transitive) To make fit for domestic life.
  3. (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
  4. (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
  5. (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.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Attempts to tame and domesticate these creatures were met with mixed results, and even though some had proven docile enough to use as mounts, there was always the slight element of unpredictability about them.”
      “Since the early era of farming, efforts have been made to domesticate the crop plants to fulfill the food requirements of humans.”
      “Here is where I change clothes, stash my food, domesticate myself to the ways of the Sidhe.”
domesticated
domesticize
  1. To make domestic; domesticate.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Daniela decided to domesticize the stray kitten by giving it a warm and loving home.”
domesticise
  1. Alternative form of domesticize
domesticizes
domesticises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of domesticise
domesticised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of domesticise
domesticized
domesticating
  1. present participle of domesticate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Archaeological and genetic evidence suggest that humans have been domesticating organisms since the Neolithic revolution, about 12,000 years ago.”
      “Africans never succeeded in domesticating their animals, like the rhino and the hippopotamus!”
      “Again limited capacity has been the sole cause of delays in domesticating some of the conventions.”
domesticising
  1. present participle of domesticise
domesticizing
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