Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment:
— Domesticate oats.

synonyms: cultivate, naturalise, naturalize, tame.

Roget 370: tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle, etc. (restrain) 751.   

Roget 184: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant etc. (insert) 300; shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit^†; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in.    billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag.    inhabit etc. (be present) 186; domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher [Fr.], bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house.    endenizen^†, naturalize, adopt.    put back, replace etc. (restore) 660.    ... show more

Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.

synonyms: domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame.

Dutch: africhten, dresseren, drillen, temmen

Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans:
— The horse was domesticated a long time ago.

synonym: tame.

Dutch: domesticeren