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TAME
tame
(adjective) flat and uninspiring
meek, tame
(adjective) very docile; “tame obedience”; “meek as a mouse”- Langston Hughes
tame, tamed
(adjective) brought from wildness into a domesticated state; “tame animals”; “fields of tame blueberries”
tame
(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”
tame, chasten, subdue
(verb) correct by punishment or discipline
domesticate, tame
(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”
domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
(verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; “He tames lions for the circus”; “reclaim falcons”
domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame
(verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; “domesticate oats”; “tame the soil”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)
Not or no longer wild; domesticated
Antonym: wild
(chiefly, of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
Synonym: gentle
Not exciting.
Synonyms: dull, flat, insipid, unexciting
Antonym: exciting
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
(mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Antonym: wild
Verb
tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)
(transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
(intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
(transitive) To make gentle or meek.
Etymology 2
Verb
tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
Anagrams
• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Team, Tema, mate, matĂ©, meat, meta, meta-, team
Etymology
Proper noun
Tame
A surname.
A river in Central England, tributary to the Trent.
A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.
Anagrams
• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Team, Tema, mate, matĂ©, meat, meta, meta-, team
Source: Wiktionary
Tame, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. entamer to cut into, to broach.]
Definition: 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. Fuller.
Tame, a. [Compar. Tamer; superl. Tamest.] Etym: [AS. tam; akin to D. tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel. tamr, L. domare to tame, Gr. dam to be tame, to tame, and perhaps to E. beteem. *61. 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. Roscommon.
3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
Syn.
– Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.
Tame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.] Etym: [AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. zähmen, 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. Macaulay.
2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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