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
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
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
Isadora Duncan
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
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
George Herbert
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
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Andrew Denton
Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
Marilu Henner
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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