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as in tamed
changed from the wild state so as to become useful and obedient to humans
every evening, a wild Canada goose is at the food trough with our tame geese
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as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
that action movie was so tame I fell asleep about 20 minutes into it
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as in to regulate
to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)
try to tame your language when you're in front of the kids
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Josh Patterson, Outside Online, 3 Aug. 2024
As for the drama, insiders say things were mostly tame.
—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 29 July 2024
Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2024
Yet even those striking moments of Tarak’s (Staz Nair) taming the Gryphon and Nemesis’s (Bae Doona) battling the maternal arachnid Harmada (Jena Malone) don’t cohere.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024
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Adjective
Ferrand-Prévot, who races for INEOS Grenadiers and is sponsored by Pinarello, found success on her Dogma XC hardtail on the fast and relatively tame—by World Cup standards—Paris course.
—Josh Patterson, Outside Online, 3 Aug. 2024
As for the drama, insiders say things were mostly tame.
—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 29 July 2024
Verb
Others might notice that the drink tames their hunger, too.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2024
Yet even those striking moments of Tarak’s (Staz Nair) taming the Gryphon and Nemesis’s (Bae Doona) battling the maternal arachnid Harmada (Jena Malone) don’t cohere.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Tame.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tame. Accessed 18 Sep. 2024.
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