Definition of Tame

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Definition of Tame

Tame

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.

To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.

To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

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Tame Quotations

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Robert Kennedy

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
George Herbert

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
Isadora Duncan

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Spiro T. Agnew

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home.
Michael Franti

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
Joan Jett

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.
Bill Sienkiewicz

Tame Translations

tame in Dutch is temmen, dresseren, africhten
tame in Finnish is koulia
tame in French is dresser
tame in Spanish is domado, domar, domesticado, manso

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