Sekirov Dictionary

tame

/teɪm/

adjective 7
verb 4
forms 5

adjective7

Under human control.
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Docile or tranquil towards humans.
- The lion was quite tame.
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Not exciting.
- This party is too tame for me.
- For a thriller, that film was really tame.
(figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
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Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- tame slaves of the laborious plough — 1685
Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
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(no longer used) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
- The victim was Captain Bickenson, who had gone there from Port Darwin to try the pearling grounds, and for this purpose employed a number of tame blacks about the schooner. — 1887

verb4

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To make or become tame; to domesticate (an animal).
- He tamed the wild horse.
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To make submissive.
- The governor tames the engine.
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To take control of something that is unruly.
- Police have to tame the riots.
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(dialect, no longer used) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
- In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need. — 1642

forms

tamed · taming · tames · tamer · tamest

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