Skip to main content
EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

domesticate

/duh-mes-ti-keyt/US // dəˈmɛs tɪˌkeɪt //UK // (dəˈmɛstɪˌkeɪt) //

驯化,驯养,驯服,归化

Related Words

naturalize归化,入籍,入籍化,入乡随俗accustom习惯,习惯于,习惯了,习惯性地familiarize熟悉,熟悉情况,熟知,熟悉了解raise提高,抬高,抬起,抬起来subdue制服,镇住了,收服,征服breed育种,繁殖,培育,饲养acclimatize适应,适应适应,适应环境,适应气候bust半身像,半身,胸围,半身雕像hitch铰链,铰接,铰链式,铰接式break突破,休息,断裂,断gentle温文尔雅,温柔,温和,温柔的train训练,培训,培养,培训课程yoke枷锁,轭,轭形,轭状物corral畜栏,围栏,畜舍,护栏teach教授,教,教导,教会herd畜群,兽群,牧民,牛群reclaim收回,回收,收回来,填海造地domiciliate住家,住所,居家,居留break in闯入,破门而入,闯入了bring up抚养,养育子女,养育孩子,抚养费

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing.

    • : to convert to domestic uses; tame.
    • : to tame, 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.
    • : to adapt so as to be cultivated by and beneficial to human beings.
    • : to accustom to household life or affairs.
    • : to take for one's own use or purposes; adopt.
    • : to make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like: to domesticate radical ideas.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing.

    • : to be domestic.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbtame; habituate
Forms: domesticated
Synonyms
naturalize归化,入籍,入籍化,入乡随俗acclimatize适应,适应适应,适应环境,适应气候accustom习惯,习惯于,习惯了,习惯性地break突破,休息,断裂,断breed育种,繁殖,培育,饲养bust半身像,半身,胸围,半身雕像corral畜栏,围栏,畜舍,护栏domiciliate住家,住所,居家,居留familiarize熟悉,熟悉情况,熟知,熟悉了解gentle温文尔雅,温柔,温和,温柔的herd畜群,兽群,牧民,牛群hitch铰链,铰接,铰链式,铰接式raise提高,抬高,抬起,抬起来reclaim收回,回收,收回来,填海造地subdue制服,镇住了,收服,征服teach教授,教,教导,教会train训练,培训,培养,培训课程yoke枷锁,轭,轭形,轭状物break in闯入,破门而入,闯入了bring up抚养,养育子女,养育孩子,抚养费housetrain宅急送,宅急便,宅心仁厚,宅配round up综述,综上所述,圆满完成,圆满完成任务

Examples

  • Even weirder, the source of these proteins relies on viral genes domesticated eons ago by our own genome through evolution.

  • Unlike their domesticated counterparts, the wolf puppies spent 12 to 24 hours a day in human care from about 10 days after birth up to and throughout the testing period.

  • Until now, SibFox was the closest anyone in the US had gotten to receiving a domesticated fox.

  • In fact, dogs are such great friends that humans probably domesticated them not once, but twice.

  • As he did, he began a one-man crusade to scour the planet collecting crop varieties that were disease resistant and might also shed light on the evolution of domesticated plants.

  • Humans spent a long time domesticating cattle, and what they were trying to do, in essence, was de-domesticate them.

  • As Sandra Bullock has found out, any attempt to domesticate them will end in a resounding failure.

  • By marginalizing certain political tendencies, the European approach makes it harder to domesticate them.

  • I know a pretty woman from a plain one, I hope, even though I dont personally want to domesticate the recording angel.

  • The hunter is thought to have been seized, one fine day, with an impulse to domesticate animals instead of hunting them.

  • His place was well named for he was a great horticulturist, the first to domesticate the Catawba grape.

  • They have now begun to domesticate certain species of Meliponas, by introducing them into earthen pots or wooden cases.

  • They seem somewhat like the buffalo and other wild animals that we have never been able to domesticate.

Level 4Browse all words →