domesticate vs tame

domesticate

verb
  • To make domestic. 

  • To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture. 

  • To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created. 

  • To make (more) fit for domestic life. 

  • To adapt to live with humans. 

noun
  • An animal or plant that has been domesticated. 

tame

verb
  • To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. 

  • To make gentle or meek. 

  • To become tame or domesticated. 

adj
  • Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. 

  • Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact. 

  • Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme. 

  • Not or no longer wild; domesticated. 

  • Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain. 

  • Not exciting. 

How often have the words domesticate and tame occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )