tame

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

2. 2superlative

   Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

3. 3superlative

   Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

4. 4superlative

   Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.

5. 5adjective

   To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.

6. 6adjective

   To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

7. 7verb

   correct by punishment or discipline

   Synonyms

   chastensubdue
8. 8verb

   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"

   Synonyms

   domesticate
9. 9verb

   overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

   "He tames lions for the circus"

   "reclaim falcons"

   Synonyms

   domesticatedomesticizereclaim
10. 10verb

    adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

    "domesticate oats"

    "tame the soil"

    Synonyms

    cultivatedomesticatenaturalisenaturalize
11. 11verb

    make less strong or intense; soften

    "Tone down that aggressive letter"

    "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"

    Synonyms

    moderate
12. 12adjective

    flat and uninspiring

13. 13adjective

    very docile- Langston Hughes

    "tame obedience"

    "meek as a mouse"

    Synonyms

    meek
14. 14adjective

    brought from wildness into a domesticated state

    "tame animals"

    "fields of tame blueberries"

    Synonyms

    tamed
15. 15adjective

    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"