tame

[Tame]

If something is tame, it cannot surprise or injure you. It’s predictable. Tame can be used as an adjective or verb. A circus lion is tame (adjective) because it’s been tamed (verb). A “lion tamer” beat the wildness out of it.

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

Verb
correct by punishment or discipline

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"

Verb
overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"

Verb
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"

Verb
make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"

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Adjective S.
flat and uninspiring

Adjective S.
very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes

Adjective
brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"

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"


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.
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

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

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.

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


Tame

Tame , v. t. [Cf. F. entamer to cut into, to broach.] 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

Tame, a. [Compar. Tamer ; superl. Tamest.] [AS. tam; akin to D. tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel. tamr, L. domare to tame, Gr. , Skr. dam to be tame, to tame, and perhaps to E. beteem. 'fb61. Cf. Adamant, Diamond, Dame, Daunt, Indomitable.] 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. Syn. -- Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.

Tame

Tame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.] [AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. z'84hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See Tame, a.] 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.

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

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

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

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Usage Examples

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans fools and women will take a little longer.

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