domesticate
verb (used with object)
were domesticating
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past progressiveof domesticate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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That schism between milk-drinkers and the rest – actually a series of independent genetic mutations – appears to have occurred about 10,000 years ago, around the time humans were domesticating farm animals.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2019
By around 8500 BCE, societies in all seven areas of settlement were domesticating and cultivating plants.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Away on the steppes of eastern Asia various Mongolian tribes, the Hunnish peoples, were domesticating the horse and developing a very wide sweeping habit of seasonal movement between their summer and winter camping places.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
