Definition of Tame

v. t.1.To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
a.1.Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
2.Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Tame slaves of the laborious plow.
- Roscommon.
3.Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
v. t.1.To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
[imp. & p. p. Tamed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.]
2.To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.


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