Meanings of becoming tame in English

Despite such roughness, a few old-timers feel that hockey is becoming tame.

His Cecilia was becoming tame in his hands, as was necessary.

Our captive did not yet show any signs of becoming tame.

And perhaps now, chastened by a sad experience, the wild mind was on the way to becoming tame.

If old, however, when thus caught, it appears to be discontented in confinement, and, seldom becoming tame, in a short time pines away and dies.

Here he was compelled to violate his instinct of self-preservation, and violate it he did, for he was becoming tame and qualifying himself for civilisation.

Here he was compelled to violate his instinct of self-preservation, and violate it he did, for he was becoming tame and qualifying himself for civilization.