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Adjective: tamed  teymd
  1. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state
    "tamed animals";
    - tame
     
  2. Brought from wildness
    "the once inhospitable landscape is now tamed"
Verb: tame  teym
  1. Correct by punishment or discipline
    - chasten, subdue
     
  2. Make less strong or intense; soften
    "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements";
    - tone down, moderate, mod [informal]
     
  3. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
    "tame the soil";
    - domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise [Brit]
     
  4. Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
    "He tames lions for the circus";
    - domesticate, domesticize, domesticise [Brit], reclaim
     
  5. Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
    "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog";
    - domesticate

See also: broken, broken in, cultivated, docile, domestic, domesticated, domestication, gentle, manipulable, manipulatable, tameness, tractable

Type of: accommodate, adapt, alter, change, modify

Encyclopedia: Tamed

Tame, David