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Tame

Adjective

Definitions

1.AdjectiveAccustomed to human contact.
2.AdjectiveDocile or tranquil towards humans.
"The lion was quite tame."
3.AdjectiveOf a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
4.AdjectiveOf a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
5.AdjectiveNot exciting.
"This party is too tame for me.; For a thriller, that film was really tame."
6.AdjectiveCrushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
7.AdjectiveCapable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
8.VerbTo make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
"He tamed the wild horse."
9.VerbTo make submissive or docile.
"The governor tames the engine."
10.VerbTo take control of something that is unruly.
"Police have to tame the riots."
11.VerbTo become tame or domesticated.
12.VerbTo make gentle or meek.
"Guard dogs need to be tamed so that they know who not to attack."
13.VerbTo broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
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