Definition of Tame

Tame

1. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
2. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
3. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
4. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
5. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
6. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.