domesticate
verb (used with object)
undomesticable
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a word derived from
domesticate.
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a word derived from
undomestic.
Example Sentences
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The accompanying material may occasionally press too hard in trying to domesticate what is, in the end, undomesticable, but the books themselves continue to exert their peculiar, unaccommodating force.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Domesticable animals are all alike; every undomesticable animal is undomesticable in its own way.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Our American bison, though a much milder-spirited beast, seems also to be essentially undomesticable for the reason that he cannot be taught to subordinate his desires to the will of man.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
