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tames tame

Spelling: [teym]

IPA: /teɪm/

Tames is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in tames (aemst).

Definitions for tames

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 tames

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 tames

Hat in hand, for the wind is cool and good, and tames the hot young blood which a woman's biting tongue has whipped into passion.

This means that he becomes master of purely physical force in man; he tames it.

And if it will not become gentle, then, the brute being necessary to him, he tames it by fear.

England invites adventurers by her beauty and then tames them.

In this way we realize the formidable nature of the beast, and comprehend the stratagem that tames it to Orlando's will.

Mules are good, if tamed, and noble Sindhu horses, and elephants with large tusks; but he who tames himself is better still.

Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand, Yet tames not this; it sticks to our last sand.

She shocks him this way and that, but gradually he tames her, and makes her nearly as dull as he is.

There was Red Grimsby, long, and lank and lithe as a Comanche, with a blue eye that tames a horse and man alike.