Definitions for Tame

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Tame tame

Spelling: [teym]

IPA: /teɪm/

Tame is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in Tame (aemt).

Definitions for Tame

adjective

1. changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
2. without the savageness or fear of humans normal in wild animals; gentle, fearless, or without shyness, as if domesticated:
3. tractable, docile, or submissive, as a person or the disposition.
4. lacking in excitement; dull; insipid:
5. spiritless or pusillanimous.
6. not to be taken very seriously; without real power or importance; serviceable but harmless:
7. brought into service; rendered useful and manageable; under control, as natural resources or a source of power.
8. cultivated or improved by cultivation, as a plant or its fruit.

verb (used with object)

1. to make tame; domesticate; make tractable.
2. to deprive of courage, ardor, or zest.
3. to deprive of interest, excitement, or attractiveness; make dull.
4. to soften; tone down.
5. to harness or control; render useful, as a source of power.
6. to cultivate, as land or plants.

verb (used without object)

1. to become tame.

Origin of Tame

before 900; (adj.) Middle English; Old English tam; cognate with Dutch tam, German zahm, Old Norse tamr; (v.) Middle English tamen, derivative of the adj.; replacing Middle English temen to t

Examples for Tame

But those d—-d fellows learn of the mad doctors how to tame us.

He left the crowd with a Greek aphorism—“to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

Her Facebook photos could populate a tame “girls with guns” style calendar.

Love is not comfort, nor house, nor lands, nor the tame delights of use and wont.

Reminds me of a cat'mount I tried to tame once, only he's twice as ugly.

But we know that our dull circle must seem tame to one who has seen so much.

A tame egret ruffled her white plumes at the Princess's shoulder.

That's tame compared to the C-word and racism other Republicans have thrown on the social network.

I had just gotten my braces off and was learning how to tame my hair with a curling iron.

He was widely perceived as having been outplayed by a vast military bureaucracy that he never sought to tame.