<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.</li><li>To tame (an animal), especially by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild.</li><li>To adapt (a plant) so as to be cultivated by and beneficial to human beings.</li><li>To accustom to household life or affairs.</li><li>To take (something foreign, unfamiliar, etc.) for one's own use or purposes; adopt.</li><li>To make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like: to domesticate radical ideas.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>To be domestic.</li></ul>