verb
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To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
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He tamed the wild horse.
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To become tame or domesticated.
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To make gentle or meek.
example
to tame a rebellion
adjective
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Not or no longer wild; domesticated
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They have a tame wildcat.
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(chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
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The lion was quite tame.
synonyms
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Not exciting.
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For a thriller, that film was really tame.
synonyms
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Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
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(of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Examples of tame in a Sentence
I guess they're not as tame as they look.
They were so tame, they stood perfectly still when I handled them.
I have two tame pigeons and a tiny canary bird.
Charles in vain strove to reduce her to tame submission.
It is little wonder that men who could tame and handle the reptiles gained esteem and influence.
Parkman had become an adept in woodcraft and a dead shot with the rifle, and could do such things with horses, tame or wild, as civilized people never see done except in a circus.
As to the introduction of domesticated cats into Europe, the opinion is very generally held that tame cats from Egypt were imported at a relatively early date into Etruria by Phoenician traders; and there is decisive evidence that these animals were established in Italy long before the Christian era.
In China his mention of Canton by the name of Censcolam or Censcolam (Chin-Kalan), and his descriptions of the custom of fishing with tame cormorants, of the habit of letting the finger-nails grow extravagantly, and of the compression of women's feet, are peculiar to him among the travellers of that age; Marco Polo omits them all.
Wild animals and tame, carnivorous and graminivorous, insects, birds, fishes and man are adapted to each other."
In the spring the great herds of tame reindeer are driven out to swim Strommen and graze in the summer pastures of Seiland; towards winter they are called home again.
Athena was said to have invented the plough, and to have taught men to tame horses and yoke oxen.
Several instances have occurred of pumas becoming tame in captivity.
Whatever is in your blood can tame evil.
Many of them were so tame that they would eat from my hand and let me feel them.
The godwits belong to the group Limicolae, and are about as big as a tame pigeon, but possess long legs, and a long bill with a slight upward turn.
Tradition says that one of the Gnostic sects known as the Ophites caused a tame serpent to coil round the sacramental bread and worshipped it as the representative of the Saviour.
Neither attachment nor even habit impresses him; never tame, though not wide-awake enough to be exactly wild."
It is true that many tame goats show spirally twisted horns recalling those of the under-mentioned Asiatic markhor; but in nearly all such instances it will be found that the spiral twists in the opposite direction.
On the following day, along with a number of fellow martyrs, he was exposed to the fury of wild beasts, which, however, laid themselves down in tame submission at his feet.
Fortunately the birds soon become tame in confinement, and a little patience will enable an attentive observer to satisfy himself as to the process, the result of which at first seems almost as unaccountable as that of a clever conjuring trick.
Little is positively known of the wild stock to which we owe our tame birds, nor can the period of its reintroduction (for there is apparently no evidence of its domestication being continuous from the time of the Romans) be assigned more than roughly to that of the African discoveries of the Portuguese.
In that year, when Lithuania and Poland were permanently united, it fell under Polish rule, and the Polish government considered it necessary to tame the wild inhabitants and bring them under regular administration.
It lies in the valley of the Tame, close to the junction of the boundaries of Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire, and is surrounded by sharply-rising high ground, especially eastward.
Some lizards possess a considerable amount of intelligence; they play with each other, become very tame, and act deliberately according to circumstances.
Her mother educated her in strict seclusion, but seclusion altogether failed to tame her imperious and ambitious temper.
It occupies a hilly site at the junction of the rivers Tame and Mersey; the larger part of the town lying on the south (left) bank, while the suburb of Heaton Norris is on the Lancashire bank.
When captured by them shortly after being hatched, and reared by the hand, it soon becomes tame and familiar; all the specimens which have reached Europe alive have been thus domesticated by the natives.
The chigah (Cercocebus cynomoigus) is the only ape found in central Sumatra in a tame state.
The ocelot is essentially a forest cat, and a ready climber; its disposition is said to be fierce and bloodthirsty but in confinement it becomes tame and playful.
Complaints are often raised about the cruelty of what is called tame stag hunting, and it became a special subject of criticism that a pack should still be kept at the Royal kennels at Ascot (it was abolished in 1901) and hunted by the Master of the Buckhounds; but it is the constant endeavour of all masters and hunt servants to prevent the infliction of any injury on the deer.
But that makes it sound somehow too benign, too tame.
Compared with that book they are tame.
Paley, though an excellent expositor and full of common sense, had the usual defect of common-sense people in philosophy - that of tame acquiescence in the prejudices of his age.
To these injurious microbes Metchnikoff has given the name of "wild," and he proposes to restore health by giving "tame" microbes, such as lactic acid bacilli.
It may be added that the long tails of most tame breeds are, like wool, in all probability the results of domestication.
His policy seemed tame and cautious, but was entirely justifiable, for within a few months of Roberts departure the inevitable feudal rebellion broke out.
Even this did not tame the impostors mercurial temperament.
For some time afterwards there was so little legislation of the kind called "enterprising" that even some friends of the government began to think it too tame; but at the end of the second year an announcement was made which put that fear to rest.
This is clearly expressed in the cult of Artemis Laphria (possibly connected with X a4wpa, "spoils"), at whose festivals all kinds of animals, both wild and tame, as well as fruits, were thrown together on a huge wood fire.
Crimes of violence are almost unknown, and the only common breach of law is the killing of tame reindeer belonging to other owners.
To his contempt for men he added that of all ideas which might put a bridle on his ambition; and to guard against them, he inaugurated the Golden Age of the police that he might tame every moral force to his hand.
Stamford Park, presented by Lord Stamford, is shared by the towns of Ashton and Stalybridge, which extends across the Tame into Cheshire.
Just don't try to tame any of those black kitties with the white stripes down their backs.
Xander suddenly was tame, compared to an Oracle who read her past and future in two seconds.
But he was unimpressed, finding it too artful, too tame.
Lucius longs for a woman to match his animalistic needs, one who could tame the beast he has become over the centuries.
Hitler was generally distrustful of the Army which he viewed as socially conservative and ideologically too tame.
Compared to saving the rainforests, or helping pandas to breed, linguistic ecology can seem a bit tame.
Sounds tame, but the game soon becomes a boisterous free-for-all as players race to identify ' sets ' of cards... .
Not seen yet by anyone except our tame madman Garth, we blow the gaff!