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1. 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"
    
2. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state
   "fields of tame blueberries"; "tame animals";
   - tamed
    
3. Flat and uninspiring
    
4. Very docile
   "tame obedience";
   - meek

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

Derived forms: tamed, tamer, tamest, tames, taming

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

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

Antonym: wild

Encyclopedia: Tame, David