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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tame \Tame\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Tamed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Taming}.] [AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. z["a]hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See {Tame}, adjective]
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.
They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness. --Macaulay.
2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tamed
adjective
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
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