tame
adj.
trained, domesticated; gentle; submissive, obedient; dull, boring
v.
domesticate; subdue, master; restrain, control
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Verb
1. correct by punishment or discipline
(synonym) chasten, subdue
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
2. make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
(synonym) tone down, moderate
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
3. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
(synonym) domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise
(hypernym) adapt, accommodate
(classification) plant, flora, plant life
4. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
(synonym) domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) break in, break
(verb-group) domesticate
(derivation) tamer
(classification) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
5. make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
(synonym) domesticate
(hypernym) adapt, accommodate
(verb-group) domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim
(classification) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
Adjective
1. flat and uninspiring
(similar) unexciting
2. very restrained or quiet; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed"
(antonym) wild
(similar) subdued
(see-also) quiet
3. brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
(synonym) tamed
(antonym) wild, untamed
(similar) broken, broken in
(see-also) tractable, manipulable
(attribute) tameness, domestication
4. very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes
(synonym) meek
(similar) docile
Tame
(v. t.)
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
(superl.)
Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
(superl.)
Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
(superl.)
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
(a.)
To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
(a.)
To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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