tame
/teɪm/
adjective
- (of an animal) not wild or dangerous; trained to live with or be handled by humans.
- The zoo has a tame parrot that sits on visitors' shoulders.
- After months of care, the stray cat became quite tame.
- Farmers prefer tame horses for pulling carts.
- Not exciting, interesting, or forceful; dull or weak.
- The movie was too tame for my taste; I wanted more action.
- The spicy salsa they served was actually quite tame.
- His speech was surprisingly tame and avoided any controversial topics.
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verb
- To make (an animal) gentle and obedient; to domesticate.
- She spent years trying to tame the feral horse.
- Ancient people learned to tame wolves into dogs.
- It takes patience to tame a wild fox.
- To bring under control; to make less powerful or extreme.
- Engineers worked to tame the river with dams and levees.
- The government introduced new laws to tame inflation.
- He struggled to tame his anger during the argument.
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