domesticise
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
He tames lions for the circus
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- tamer derivation
- tamable derivation
- animal domain topic
- domesticate verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tamer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tamable |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | animal |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | domesticate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | break in |