domesticar

Tres contrafuertes y dos compuertas domesticaban el agua.	Three buttresses and two floodgates tamed the water.
Este animal lo vio Hernán Cortés, por primera vez, en los enormes jardines del Palacio de Moctezuma donde se domesticaban y criaban.	This animal was first seen by Hernan Cortes in the huge gardens of Moctezuma's Palace where turkeys were tamed and bred.
Esos primeros pobladores ya tenían habilidades para realizar diversas actividades: regaban los arrozales, trabajaban el cobre y el bronce y domesticaban animales.	These early Indonesian people already knew some skills such as how to irrigate rice fields, use copper and bronze, and domesticate animals.
Contra bombardeos indiscriminados, los vietnamitas usaron elementos que incluían trampas de bambú en la selva, que aterrorizaban a los bien pertrechados soldados estadounidenses, o domesticaban avispas —no es un chiste— es real.	In response to indiscriminate aerial bombings, the Vietnamese used elements that included bamboo traps in the jungle that terrified the well-armed U.S. soldiers, or tamed wasps–that is no joke–it is for real.
Tal era la dulzura del canto de Orfeo, que los bosques corrían en pos de él, los animales fieros se domesticaban, y las ninfas y los dioses se conmovían.	So pleasant was Orpheus song that the forests ran towards him, the fierce animals became docile, and the nymphs and gods were moved.