domesticate

Other forms of domesticate

past tense

domesticated·

present participle

domesticating·

third person

domesticates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about domesticate

What does domesticate mean?

domesticate means "adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in domesticate?

domesticate has 4 syllables: do-mes-ti-cate. The stress falls on "mes". In IPA it is /dəˈmɛstəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for domesticate?

Close synonyms include cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame, domesticize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is domesticate a common word?

domesticate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with domesticate?

34 words rhyme with domesticate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.