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tame

English

  1. 🔊 flat and uninspiring
  2. 🔊 brought from wildness into a domesticated state
    “tame animals”
  3. 🔊 very restrained or quiet
    “a tame Christmas party”
  4. 🔊 very docile
    “tame obedience”
  5. 🔊 correct by punishment or discipline
  6. 🔊 make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
    “The horse was domesticated a long time ago”
  7. 🔊 make less strong or intense
    “Tone down that aggressive letter”
  8. 🔊 overcome the wildness of
    “He tames lions for the circus”
  9. 🔊 adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
    “domesticate oats”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 duendo tame
  2. 🔊 amansar to tame
  3. 🔊 domar to tame
  4. 🔊 desbravado tame, light
  5. 🔊 domeñar to tame, to domesticate
  6. 🔊 manso tame, meek; not threatening

Similar words

chasten subdue domesticate domesticate domesticize domesticise reclaim domesticate cultivate naturalize naturalise tone down moderate meek tamed abate abeyant acclimate acclimatize accommodate accustom adapt adjust allay