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1. Converted or adapted to domestic use
   "domesticated plants like maize";
   - domestic
    
2. Accustomed to home life
   "some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it"

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

See also: domestic, tame, tamed

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

Encyclopedia: Domesticated