tame

tame is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
2. superlative. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
3. superlative. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
4. superlative. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
5. adjective. 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. adjective. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
7. verb. correct by punishment or discipline

   Synonyms: chasten, subdue

8. verb. 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. verb. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

   "He tames lions for the circus"

   "reclaim falcons"

   Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim

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

    "domesticate oats"

    "tame the soil"

    Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize

11. verb. make less strong or intense; soften

    "Tone down that aggressive letter"

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

    Synonyms: moderate

12. adjective. flat and uninspiring
13. adjective. very docile- Langston Hughes

    "tame obedience"

    "meek as a mouse"

    Synonyms: meek

14. adjective. brought from wildness into a domesticated state

    "tame animals"

    "fields of tame blueberries"

    Synonyms: tamed

15. adjective. 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"

Synonyms

chasten, subdue, domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, cultivate, naturalise, naturalize, moderate, meek, tamed

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tame:

mate, meat, meta, team, tema

Common word forms

tamed, tamer, tames, tamely, tamest, taming, tameable, tameless, tameness

Words from these letters

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