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Dogs were domesticated thousands of years ago.domesticated = made fit to live with humans -- by breeding or taming
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Wolves are not domesticated. Even if they are raised in the home, they are not suitable pets like dogs.domesticated = made fit to live with humans
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domesticated plants like maize†
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Zoologists will tell you that certain animals more or less "chose" domestication. (source)domestication = being made fit for service to humans
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But we could easily breed slower, more domesticated dinosaurs.† (source)
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The first domesticated horse I ever saw was a bay gelding, and it was standing next to the corral, nibbling sugar cubes from Shawn's hand.† (source)
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She's already been given the engraved silver cup from Birks, the nursery wallpaper with the frieze of domesticated bears, the starter pearls for her single-strand pearl necklace, and all the other golden gifts, perfectly comme il faut, that will turn to coal when the sun rises.† (source)
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I saw immediately that the trail had led to one of the few free motile isles which the Templars had saved from Hegemony domestication.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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We figured out how to grow food and domesticate animals so we didn't have to spend all of our time hunting.† (source)
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But it was well to find out what he wanted— Rod did not underrate the importance of domesticating plants; that was basic for all colonies and triply so for them.† (source)
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The disquietude he felt on Katahdin's granite heights inspired some of his most powerful writing and profoundly colored the way he thought thereafter about the earth in its coarse, undomesticated state. (source)undomesticated = not made fit for service to humansstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undomesticated means not and reverses the meaning of domesticated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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As you well know, conscientious animal husbandry serves the same function in domesticated animals that natural selection serves in the wild.† (source)
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As they proceeded down the mural, heading toward the back of Celbedeil, Eragon witnessed everything from the domestication of Feldunost to the carving of Isidar Mithrim, the first meeting between dwarves and elves, and the coronation of each new dwarf king.† (source)
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bridle and domesticate celerity trattoria wise guy = Kpymoiinauatt propinquity Dereliction of duty.† (source)
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Two of these proved to be a variety of the Blue Molucca pigeon; the third I assumed to be the Nicobar pigeon, having met with descriptions of its resplendent green, bronze, and steely-blue plumage; and I was pleased to think of domesticating them, and establishing them as first tenants of a suitable dwelling near the cave.† (source)
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These realizations moved clearly through the senses, the memory, the feelings, the mere feeling of the place they paused at, about a quarter of a mile from home, on a rock under a stray tree that had grown in the city, their feet on undomesticated clay, facing north through the night over the Southern Railway tracks and over North Knoxville, towards the deeply folded small mountains and the Powell River Valley, and above them, the trembling lanterns of the universe, seeming so near, so intimate, that when air stirred the leaves and their hair, it seemed to be the breathing, the whispering of the stars.† (source)undomesticated = not fit for service to humans or home life
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