domesticated
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
domesticated
adj 1: converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals";
"domesticated plants like maize" [syn: {domestic},
{domesticated}]
2: accustomed to home life; "some men think it unmanly to be
domesticated; others find gratification in it"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Domesticate \Do*mes"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Domesticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Domesticating.}] [LL.
domesticatus, p. p. of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See
{Domestic}, a.]
1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to
domesticate one's self.
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2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country;
as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
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3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate
wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
domesticated \domesticated\ adj.
1. tame, tamed; -- of animals. Opposite of {wild}.
Syn: domestic.
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2. accustomed to home life; as, some men think it unmanly to
be domesticated; others find gratification in it.
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3. acclimated to a new environment; -- of plants or animals.
Syn: naturalized, nonnative.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "domesticated":
broken, brought low, chastened, crushed, domestic, dovelike,
gentle, housebroke, housebroken, humble, humbled, humiliated,
lamblike, made to grovel, meek, mild, pacific, peaceable, quelled,
quiet, reduced, subdued, submissive, tame, tamed
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