tame

Definition

  • verb: to make (an animal) tame
  • verb: to reduce from a wild to a domestic state
  • adjective: not wild
  • adjective: reduced from a state of native wildness especially so as to be tractable and useful to humans
  • synonyms: domesticated, divide, distribute

Examples

  • Some people were shocked by the movie, but I found the story pretty 'tame'.

  • Members of the audience were too 'tame' to interrupt the speaker.

  • The government needs to do something to 'tame' inflation.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - You got a headache. That rock split in two. It taught me what a Viking could do, Gobber. He could crush mountains, level forests, tame seas! Even as a boy, I knew what I was, what I had to become. Hiccup is not that boy. You can't stop him, Stoick. You can only prepare him. (..)
    2010 How to Train Your Dragon