Tamed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tame \Tame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Taming}.] [AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G.
     z[aum]hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See
     {Tame}, a.]
     1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle
        and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a


        wild beast.
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              They had not been tamed into submission, but baited
              into savegeness and stubbornness.     --Macaulay.
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     2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride
        or passions of youth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tamed
       adj 1: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame
              animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" [syn: {tame}]
              [ant: {wild}]
       2: brought from wildness; "the once inhospitable landscape is
          now tamed"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "tamed":
     broken, brought low, chastened, crushed, domesticated, dovelike,
     gentle, housebroke, housebroken, humble, humbled, humiliated,
     lamblike, made to grovel, meek, mild, pacific, peaceable, quelled,
     quiet, reduced, subdued, tame