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Acquire vs Domesticated - What's the difference?

acquire | domesticated |

As verbs the difference between acquire and domesticated

is that acquire is to get while domesticated is (domesticate).

As an adjective domesticated is

selectively bred to live with or around humans.

acquire

English

Verb

(acquir)
  • To get.
  • To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own, as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
  • * (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
  • No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.
  • * (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
  • Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), chapter=3/19/2, title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
  • , passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}

    Synonyms

    * attain, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, win

    Derived terms

    * acquired taste

    domesticated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (domesticate)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • selectively bred to live with or around humans.
  • *
  • Antonyms

    * undomesticated