1. Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
   "The horse was domesticated a long time ago";
   - tame
    
2. Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
   "domesticate falcons";
   - domesticize, domesticise [Brit], reclaim, tame
    
3. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
   "domesticate oats";
   - cultivate, naturalize, naturalise [Brit], tame

Derived forms: domesticated, domesticates, domesticating

Type of: accommodate, adapt, alter, change, modify

Encyclopedia: Domesticate