Taming

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

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "taming":
     acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, adaption,
     adjustment, breaking, breaking-in, case hardening, conditioning,
     conquering, crushing, domestication, familiarization, gentling,
     habituation, hardening, housebreaking, humbling, humiliation,
     inurement, naturalization, orientation, quelling, reduction,
     seasoning, subdual, suppression, training, treading down