tame

Meanings

• correct by punishment or discipline
• make less strong or intense; soften;
• "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment;
• "tame the soil"
• overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable;
• "He tames lions for the circus"
• make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans;
• "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
• flat and uninspiring
• 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"
• brought from wildness into a domesticated state;
• "tame animals"
• "fields of tame blueberries"
• very docile; - Langston Hughes
• "tame obedience"
• TAME adj TAMER, TAMEST gentle or docile
• TAME v TAMED, TAMING, TAMES to make tame

Synonyms

• chasten
• subdue
• tone down
• moderate
• domesticate
• cultivate
• naturalize
• naturalise
• domesticize
• domesticise
• reclaim
• tamed
• meek

Scrabble Score: 6

tame is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

tame is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

tame is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

tame is a valid Words With Friends word

Anagrams of tame