Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.
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Insipid; flat: a tame Christmas party.
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Naturally unafraid; not timid: "The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame” ( Peter Matthiessen).
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Sluggish; languid; inactive: a tame river.
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Submissive; docile; fawning: tame obedience.
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verb-transitive
To make tractable; domesticate.
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To subdue or curb.
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To tone down; soften.
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