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Verb: domesticise  du'mes-ti,sIz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: domesticize)
  1. Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
    "They attempted to domesticise the feral cats";
    - domesticate, domesticize, reclaim, tame

Derived forms: domesticised, domesticises, domesticising

Type of: alter, change, modify