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"

Synonyms

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