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Tame   /teɪm/   Listen
Tame

adjective
(compar. tamer; superl. tamest)
1.
Flat and uninspiring.
2.
Very restrained or quiet.  "She was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed"
3.
Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.  Synonym: tamed.  "Fields of tame blueberries"
4.
Very docile.  Synonym: meek.  "Meek as a mouse"
verb
(past & past part. tamed; pres. part. taming)
1.
Correct by punishment or discipline.  Synonyms: chasten, subdue.
2.
Make less strong or intense; soften.  Synonyms: moderate, tone down.  "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
3.
Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.  Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize.  "Tame the soil"
4.
Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.  Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim.  "Reclaim falcons"
5.
Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans.  Synonym: domesticate.  "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"



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"Tame" Quotes from Famous Books



... Master's sign and fashion, And unbefooled by the heart's compassion, Undeterred by form and feature, Caught the creature, Tried by the test of water and fire, Pierced and pinioned with silver wire, Circled with signs that could control, Battered with spells that tame and torture The demon nature, Till he writhed in his shape, a fiend confest, And vanished— Then had come back, the poor soul banished, Then had come back the little soul. But now there is nothing to do or to say. Will ...
— A Cluster of Grapes - A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry • Various
... not usually confined to cages, but are left to climb about the booths. The natives love these birds and make great pets of them. The birds are tame and quite accomplished in the art of begging. When the passer-by extends his hand, they walk into it for the sake of the gifts which ...
— A Little Journey to Puerto Rico - For Intermediate and Upper Grades • Marian M. George
... day fortune favored Paul in his efforts to please Miriam. He had a tame white rabbit, and he thought that the child would like it for a pet—so he got up very early in the morning, and washed the rabbit "clean as a new penny," and put it under a new box to get dry while he ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... part he shouts like a plundering hussar who has carried off his prey; and in the other he bows with the tame suppleness of the "quarterly" Swiss chaffering his halbert for his price;—"to serve his Majesty" for—"his ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli
... disagree?" My ode pleases me so much that I cannot alter it. Your proposed alterations would, in my opinion, make it tame. I am exceedingly obliged to you for putting me on reconsidering it, as I think I have much improved it. Instead of "sodger! hero!" I will have it ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham


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