Synonyms of domesticating

domesticating

verb

present participle of domesticate

as in cultivating

to change (a wild animal or plant) over time to make it more suited to life with or use by humans

Humans domesticated wolves to produce man's best friend.

Related Words

• cultivating
• training
• breeding
• propagating
• using
• producing
• utilizing
• raising
• adapting
• growing
• adopting
• mastering
• shaping
• adjusting
• naturalizing
• nurturing
• accustoming
• fostering
• fashioning
• habituating
• conditioning
• promoting
• planting
• putting
• editing
• tailoring
• borrowing
• conforming
• culturing
• acclimating
• rearing
• cropping
• subduing
• acclimatizing
• accommodating
• doctoring
• subjugating
• suiting
• usurping
• habilitating
• conquering
• fitting
• subordinating
• subjecting
• converting
• modifying
• dominating
• appropriating
• bringing up
• sowing
• vanquishing
• transforming
• dressing
• pacifying
• altering
• arrogating
• embracing
• overpowering
• revising
• reclaiming
• recasting
• remaking
• reinventing
• redesigning
• reworking
• recycling
• reengineering
• remodeling
• redoing
• taking over
• refocusing
• redeveloping
• espousing
• revamping
• refashioning
• refitting
• taking up
• taking on
• refiguring
• making over
• rejiggering

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of domesticating

The institute, which formally began domesticating Kernza in 2001, works with researchers and farmers around the world to develop perennial versions of wheat, rice, sorghum and other grain and oil seeds. — ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

In a statement published in the Journal of Heredity, Bell suggested that the government should look into the possibility of domesticating manatees. — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026

Tens of thousands of years ago, humans began domesticating wild wolves to make hunting, gathering food and protection easier, according to Science News. — K'mari Greene, AJC.com, 4 June 2026

Truly domesticating bees required a hive with movable frames, one that would allow beekeepers to examine their bees and harvest honey without destroying the colony. — Literary Hub, 27 May 2026

That means that winemakers across what is now France must have switched from domesticating wild grapes to propagating them directly—that is, cloning grapevines by taking cuttings of the plants to start new groves. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2026

And perhaps no one brand better exemplifies the nation's work than Track Trailer and its Tvan, a little 'drop trailer that's been domesticating the Outback for over a quarter-century. — New Atlas, 17 Mar. 2026

Lonpi Tipi added that domesticating larvae production ultimately would lead to solving problems related to access to protein- and nutrition-rich food. — Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025

But where chimps might merely poke over the ashes, our lineage at some point took the next step in promoting and even domesticating the flames — perhaps picking a smoldering stick from the edges of one grassland, and lighting the grassland in the next valley over. — Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025