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Definition of Tame

1. Adjective. Flat and uninspiring.

2. Verb. Correct by punishment or discipline.

3. Adjective. Very restrained or quiet. "She was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed"

4. Verb. Make less strong or intense; soften. "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"

5. Adjective. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state. "Fields of tame blueberries"

6. Verb. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment. "Tame the soil"

7. Adjective. Very docile. "Meek as a mouse"

8. Verb. Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable. "Reclaim falcons"

9. Verb. Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans. "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"

Definition of Tame

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

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

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

Definition of Tame

1. Adjective. Not or no longer wild; domesticated ¹

2. Adjective. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact ¹

3. Adjective. Not exciting ¹

4. Adjective. (mathematics of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) to make something tame ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) to become tame ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tame

1. gentle or docile [adj TAMER, TAMEST] / to make tame [v TAMED, TAMING, TAMES] - See also: tame

Medical Definition of Tame

1. 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. Synonym: Gentle, mild, meek. See Gentle. Origin: 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. 61. Cf. Adamant, Diamond, Dame, Daunt, Indomitable. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tame

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tamburas tamburin tamburins tamburitza tamburs tame (current term) tameable tameableness tamed tamed iodine

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