kesyttää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- break verb To separate something into pieces by force, often suddenly.
- domesticate verb To turn something into a domestic thing or make it belong to home life.
- meek adj Quiet, humble, and unwilling to assert oneself.
- tame adj Not wild; brought under human control, especially of an animal.
Senses
kesyttää is used for these senses in English:
- break To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- break in (transitive, of a horse) To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.
- domesticate (transitive) To make domestic.
- meek (US) To tame; to break (a horse)
- tame (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
break — full definition
- verb To separate something into pieces by force, often suddenly.
- verb To stop working properly; to malfunction.
- verb To fail to keep (a promise, rule, or law).
- verb To interrupt or bring an end to something continuous.
- noun A short pause or rest from an activity.
domesticate — full definition
- verb To turn something into a domestic thing or make it belong to home life.
- verb To make someone or something better suited to life at home.
- verb To get a wild animal or plant used to living alongside people.
- verb (law) To have a legal document formally accepted as valid in a country other than the one where it was first issued.
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