tame
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Accustomed to human contact.
- Docile or tranquil towards humans.
- Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
- Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
- Not exciting.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Verb
- To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
- To make submissive or docile.
- To take control of something that is unruly.
- To become tame or domesticated.
- To make gentle or meek.
- To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
Proper noun
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- A river in the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
- A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.
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