domesticise

1. 1.

   overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

   “He tames lions for the circus”

   “reclaim falcons”

   Synonymsdomesticatedomesticizereclaimtame

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerbreak in

   animal

Other forms of domesticise

past tense

domesticised·

present participle

domesticising·

third person

domesticises·

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 domesticise

What does domesticise mean?

domesticise means "overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable".

How many syllables are in domesticise?

domesticise has 4 syllables: do-me-sti-cise. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for domesticise?

Close synonyms include domesticate, domesticize, reclaim, tame. 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 domesticise a common word?

domesticise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.