verb
- Correct by punishment or discipline.
- Make less strong or intense; soften.
- usage: "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
- Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.
- usage: "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
- synonyms: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise
- Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.
- usage: "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
- synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim
- Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans.
- usage: "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
- synonyms: domesticate
adjective
- Flat and uninspiring.
- Very restrained or quiet.
- usage: "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"
- Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
- usage: "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
- synonyms: tamed
- Very docile."tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse- Langston Hughes
- synonyms: meek
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