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tame verb1.
[Old English temman, temian, from Germanic base of TAME adjective: superseded in Middle English by forms directly from the adjective.]
verb trans. Bring (a wild animal) under the control or into the service of humans; reclaim from the wild state, make tame, domesticate. OE.
C. Lyell The lake-dwellers succeeded in taming that formidable brute.
b. Bring under or into cultivation. E17-M18.
verb trans. Overcome the wildness or fierceness of (a person, animal, or thing); control, subdue, curb; make tractable or docile. OE.
Milton This River-dragon tam'd at length submits To let his sojourners depart. N. Gordimer His hair, still long, had been combed wet until tamed. R. Fraser Marriage to Maria helped tame a spirit that could flash out into unwise behaviour. Time The battle to tame inflation has been exasperating.
verb trans. Reduce the intensity of; temper, soften, mellow. L15.
F. T. Palgrave Manhood's colours tamed to gray. H. Carpenter She tries to tame her masculine aggression and to cultivate feminine self-control.
verb intrans. Become tame; grow more tractable or docile. Also foll. by down. M17.
L. Adamic Now..in power, the Radicals tamed down and changed their color. New Yorker The okapi tames readily.
Comb.: tame-poison the swallowwort Vincetoxicum officinale (family Asclepiadaceae), the root of which was formerly used as an antidote to poisons.
tamer noun M16.