Thesaurus: tame

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1. v. t. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
2. superl. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
3. superl. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
4. superl. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
5. 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.
6. a. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
7. adj. flat and uninspiring
8. adj. very restrained or quiet
9. adj. brought from wildness into a domesticated state
10. adj. very docile
11. v. correct by punishment or discipline
12. v. make less strong or intense; soften