Humanize vs Domesticate - What's the difference?
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To make human, to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human.
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(medicine) To convert into something human or belonging to humans.
To make humane.
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To make domestic.
To make fit for domestic life.
To adapt to live with humans.
To adapt to live with humans.
To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
As verbs the difference between humanize and domesticate
is that humanize is to make human, to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human while domesticate is to make domestic.As a noun domesticate is
an animal or plant that has been domesticated.humanize
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(humaniz)- Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion?
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- to humanize vaccine lymph
- humanized monoclonal antibodies
Etymology 2
Verb
(humaniz)domesticate
English
Verb
(domesticat)- The Russian claims to have successfully domesticated foxes.
- Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.
