_ˌmestəˈkāshən noun
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: the action or process of domesticating or the state of being domesticated
according to Hahn, domestication involves free breeding in captivity — R.H.Lowie
the ant's domestication of the aphid
carbon monoxide … has been a hazard to man since the domestication of fire — Berton Roueché
what might be expected to result from the domestication in a free environment of the inchoate idealisms of English Puritanism — V.L.Parrington