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tame

 
Adjective tame has 4 senses
  1. tame - flat and uninspiring
    Antonym:
    exciting (indirect, via unexciting)
  2. tame - 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"
    Antonyms:
    wild, chaotic, disorderly, delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained, frenzied, manic
  3. tame, tamed - brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
    Antonyms: wild, untamed, feral, ferine, savage, unbroken, undomesticated
  4. meek, tame - very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes
    Antonym: stubborn (indirect, via docile)
Verb tame has 5 senses
  1. tame, chasten, subdue - correct by punishment or discipline
    --1 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  2. tone down, moderate, tame - make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
    --2 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
    --3 is one way to adapt, accommodate
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame - overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
    --4 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Derived form: noun tamer1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  5. domesticate, tame - 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"
    --5 is one way to adapt, accommodate
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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