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tamed |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tame \Tame\, v. t. [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}, a.] 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 1.6 [wn]: tamed adj 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"
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