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tame

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Adjective

  1. Accustomed to human contact.
  2. Docile or tranquil towards humans.
  3. Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
  4. Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
  5. Not exciting.
  6. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  7. Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Verb

  1. To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
  2. To make submissive or docile.
  3. To take control of something that is unruly.
  4. To become tame or domesticated.
  5. To make gentle or meek.
  6. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Proper noun

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
  2. A river in the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
  3. A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.

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