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tame English

Meaning tame meaning

What does tame mean?
Definitions in simple English

tame Adjective

— If something is tame, it is not dangerous. Tame animals can live with people.

tame Verb

— To tame is to train an animal to live with people. The monkey is tame. He will not hurt you.

tame

— verb correct by punishment or discipline — adjective flat and uninspiring — adjective (= tamed) brought from wildness into a domesticated state tame animals fields of tame blueberries — adjective very restrained or quiet 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 — adjective (= meek) very docile tame obedience meek as a mouse — Langston Hughes — verb (= domesticate) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans The horse was domesticated a long time ago The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog — verb (= tone down) make less strong or intense; soften Tone down that aggressive letter The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements — verb (= reclaim) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable He tames lions for the circus reclaim falcons — verb (= domesticate) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment domesticate oats tame the soil

Synonyms tame synonyms

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tame English » English

domesticate docile domesticated subdue domestic train gentle cultivate reclaim mild subjugate meek tone down tender quiet obedient civilize refine quell moderate humble humanize educate domesticize domesticise calm break in win over tamed overcome insipid control conquer break trained timid suppress submissive pusillanimous pet naturalized naturalize naturalise master discipline dilute chasten bring into subjection boring accustomed to

Topics tame topics

What do people use tame to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal

Types of animals
Work and occupation

Animal husbandry
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Domesticated animal
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals

Conjugation tame conjugation

How do you conjugate tame?

tame · verb

Examples tame examples

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Simple sentences

The birds are so tame they will eat from your hand.
The bear is quite tame and doesn't bite.
This camel is so tame that anyone can ride it.
You cannot tame a wolf.
A camel is a gentle and pleasant tame beast whereof there are plenty in Africa especially in the Deserts of Libya, Numidia and Barbary by which Africans estimate their own wealth.
You can't tame a wolf.
I have never seen an animal as tame as a turtle.
Tame birds dream of freedom. Wild birds fly!
Ten tame goats pull ten hundredweights of sugar to Zurich main station.
Tycho had a tame elk.
Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.
Gods created women to tame men.
Tom caught a wolf and tried to tame it.

Movie subtitles

The American foxtrot is considered too tame, too dull.
It's a tame leopard.
Well, that's her leopard, and it's tame.
There can be no such thing as a tame.
A tame leopard?
Even though it is tame, I think we should try to catch it.
I knew all the time he was tame.
No, I'm under oath as a gentleman not to kill any tame rabbits.
But The Lamb will know how to tame him.
I hope that monkey's tame. You don't need to worry.
He's tame.
It'll be tame after where you've been.
ThatJackson don't look none too tame to me anyway.
Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor.
The leader of that group, Frank Kerr, tame to Leiden to collaborate.
Well, so am I. - It's a tame leopard.
Oh, it isn't tame and easy like the North.
I hope that monkey's tame.
Hello. A tame raven.
I am tame. Pronounce.
Yes, yes, you tame a pack of wolves with a feather.
Life'll tame her fast enough.
Yeah, this dump's getting too tame for me.
Inhabitants of America will be able to catch them, tame them and use them as beasts of.
Oh, Ramona's a pet. She's very tame. watch.
How the heck would you tame a monster like this?
Not tame ones like these.
Just a tame magician.

News and current affairs

The DPJ, despite its manifesto, seems unprepared to tame the mandarins, and so may be forced to rely on them.
The second one is that it is quite difficult to tame those animal spirits.
NEW YORK: Throughout history, shamans and soothsayers, wizards and witches have tried to read and tame the future.
Such questions will have increasing salience in light of the concerns about economic efficiency and cost containment that are shaping the efforts of today's shamans to read, assess, and tame the future in this, the age of biotechnology.
CAMBRIDGE - The sub-prime mortgage crisis has demonstrated once again how hard it is to tame finance, an industry that is both the lifeline of modern economies and their gravest threat.
And the market inflation forecast - the spread between Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities and normal Treasuries - remains extremely tame.
The new focus on the need to tame the power of finance is largely a consequence of globalization.
Muscovites are starting to realize that it just may take a democrat to tame corruption and inspire a true civic peace.
After 1989, human rights were understood as a universal code to tame state despotism.
In 1997 government attempts to tame the power of the oligarchs redounded against the state as the cabinet was dissolved.
While neither American nor Iraqi security officials have yet found a way to tame the militias, the Iraqi public is increasingly drawn toward a vision of a democratic, non-sectarian government for the country.
Raising interest rates can reduce aggregate demand, which can slow the economy and tame increases in prices of some goods and services, especially non-traded goods and services.
At board meetings, tame in-house managers usually outvote me.
The Supreme Soviet elected by that Congress was more tame.
Here a hopeful sign in today's political travails is found in the potent role played by Southeast Asia's once tame press in reporting corruption scandals.
Teaching morality and values in business schools will not tame such behavior, but changing the incentives that reward short-term profits and lead bankers and traders to take excessive risks will.
That they had the audacity to demand progress toward the rule of law and social justice, as well as efforts to tame Greece's shipping magnates and its tax-avoiding clergy?
But he increasingly resembles the sorcerer's apprentice, who cannot tame the forces that he has conjured - forces that want to leave the EU for ideological reasons, to the detriment of the British people.
His alleged mistresses were named and proclaimed; one, it is said, sits in the Duma (parliament) as a member of Putin's tame political party United Russia.
Russia probably can tame the Iranian regime, but it will do so only in exchange for America's respect for its interests in the former Soviet Republics, and possibly also a revision of post-Cold War strategic agreements.
The crisis consists in nothing less than an effort by the major drug cartels to tame and suborn the Mexican state, and not just in the strip along the United States border, though the epicenter of the crisis is there.
Wen's cabinet, moreover, has failed to tame inflation, particularly for foodstuffs ranging from eggs to pork.
France wanted to tame German power by harnessing it to the European project, and Germany was prepared to sacrifice the Deutsche Mark for the sake of France's acceptance of a united Germany, the nightmare of Europe's recent past.
Previously, I was twice arrested on charges that even Mr. Kuchma's tame courts failed to pursue.

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