Definition of tame

"tame" in the verb sense

1. tame, chasten, subdue

correct by punishment or discipline

2. tone down, moderate, tame

make less strong or intense soften

"Tone down that aggressive letter"

"The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"

3. domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame

adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

"domesticate oats"

"tame the soil"

4. domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame

overcome the wildness of make docile and tractable

"He tames lions for the circus"

"reclaim falcons"

5. domesticate, tame

make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans

"The horse was domesticated a long time ago"

"The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"

"tame" in the adjective sense

1. tame

flat and uninspiring

2. tame

very restrained or quiet

"a tame Christmas party"

"she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed"

3. tame, tamed

brought from wildness into a domesticated state

"tame animals"

"fields of tame blueberries"

4. meek, tame

very docile

"tame obedience"

"meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes

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Quotations for tame

Little losses amaze, great tame. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Of all tame beasts I hate a slut. [ Proverb ]

Age and wedlock tame man and beast. [ Proverb ]

God created woman only to tame man. [ Voltaire ]

Happy that I can
Be crossed and thwarted as a man,
Not left in God's contempt apart,
With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart,
Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize. [ Browning ]

Time and thought tame the greatest grief. [ Proverb ]

Music's force can tame the furious beast;
Can make the wolf or foaming boar restrain
His rage; the lion drop his crested mane
Attentive to the song. [ Prior ]

And genius hath electric power,
Which earth can never tame;
Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower -
Its flash is still the same. [ Lydia M. Child ]

Every one can tame a shrew but he that has her. [ Proverb ]

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

Try to tame a mad horse, but knock him not at head. [ Proverb ]

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. [ St. James ]

Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer. [ Ben Jonson ]

I never was on the dull, tame shore, but I loved the great sea more and more. [ Barry Cornwall ]

What are these wondrous civilizing arts, this Roman polish, and this smooth behavior that render man thus tractable and tame? [ Addison ]

tame in Scrabble®

The word tame is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters tame:

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MATE
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tame in Words With Friends™

The word tame is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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TEAM
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MATE
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MEAT
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Word Growth involving tame

Shorter words in tame

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am tam

ta tam

Longer words containing tame

aspartame

catamenia

cefetamet

entameba entamebae

entameba entamebas

heptameter heptameters

hereditament hereditaments

juxtamembrane

octameter octameters

octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane

overtame

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tamed juxtamedullary

tamed untamed

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