domesticate

1. (transitive) To make domestic.transitive

2. (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.Examples: ""To answer your question, Tai's fine. She mostly just smokes socially these days." "You're domesticating her!" "We're domesticating each other. The other day I found myself reading a home decorating blog.""transitive

3. (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.Examples: "The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes."transitive

4. (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.Examples: "Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats."intransitive

5. (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.transitive

6. (transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.Antonyms: foreignizetransitive