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Definition of Tamed
1. Adjective. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state. "Fields of tame blueberries"
Attributes: Domestication, Tameness
Similar to: Broken, Broken In, Cultivated, Docile, Gentle, Domestic, Domesticated
Also: Manipulable, Tractable
Derivative terms: Tameness
Antonyms: Wild
2. Adjective. Brought from wildness. "The once inhospitable landscape is now tamed"
Definition of Tamed
1. Adjective. domesticated ¹
2. Adjective. tame ¹
3. Verb. (past of tame) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tamed
1. tame [v] - See also: tame
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tamed
Literary usage of Tamed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1794)
"Several peo» pie have therefore tamed young deer, and made ufe of them for hunting
wild deer, ... Beavers have been fo tamed that they have gone on ..."
2. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White, George Christopher Davies (1890)
"An ancient author, though no naturalist, has well remarked that " every kind of
beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things in the sea, is tamed, ..."
3. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1890)
"ANIMALS WHICH ABB tamed IN PAET ONLY. Hares are seldom tamed, and yet they cannot
properly be called wild animals; indeed, there are many species of diem ..."
4. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"Military Men, domesticated to Civil Life, like tamed Animals. ... So military
men, tamed down from the independence of camp into the regulated routine of ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"They breed by means of eggs hidden in loose soil or leaves; and are of slow growth.
They are said to be easily tamed and to show intelligence. ..."