<p><strong>verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) domesticated, domesticating.<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></li></ul>