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Tame   /teɪm/   Listen
adjective
Tame  adj.  (compar. tamer; superl. tamest)  
1.
Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
2.
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. "Tame slaves of the laborious plow."
3.
Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
Synonyms: Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.


verb
Tame  v. t.  To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need."


Tame  v. t.  (past & past part. tamed; pres. part. taming)  
1.
To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. "They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness."
2.
To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.





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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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