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Meanings of tame in English

Portuguese
domar
Catalan
dominar
Spanish
dominar

To make obedient, docile and tractable; to train to follow orders of the owner.

        domar
        Catalan
        naturalitzar

        Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.

              naturalitzar
              Spanish
              domar

              Correct by punishment or discipline.

                    domar
                    Portuguese
                    manso
                    Spanish
                    dócil

                    Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.

                        Related terms
                        manso
                        Usage of tame in English
                        1
                        State media and tame pro-government academics are increasingly aggressive in their response.
                        The Guardian
                        2
                        The animals were tame because they were not used to seeing men.
                        The new yorker
                        3
                        Gold's record run tame by 1980 standards Gold price at record levels?
                        Reuters
                        4
                        The birds are tame and quite accomplished in the art of begging.
                        Little Journey to Puerto Rico / For Intermediate and Upper Grade...
                        5
                        With slack still remaining in the labor market, wage inflation remains tame.
                        Reuters
                        6
                        It might in time make the financial fallout from Greece look tame.
                        The Guardian
                        7
                        Clearer thinking is also required on how to tame destabilising capital flows.
                        Reuters
                        8
                        I am quite tame; I am about the tamest beast that crawls.
                        Manalive
                        9
                        Q Will the new Smithfield horse fair be too tame an affair?
                        The Irish Times
                        10
                        They are quite harmless, and appear to be in general very tame.
                        The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3: ...
                        11
                        Exporting countries have curbed shipments to ensure domestic supplies and tame inflation.
                        Reuters
                        12
                        It is not illness; that is too tame a word for it.
                        'Doc.' Gordon
                        13
                        The water-life of the Juaves is at once picturesque and curiously tame.
                        In Indian Mexico (1908)
                        14
                        The fish here were as tame as those caught in Deer River.
                        Ungava
                        15
                        Coutu's tame monthly results paled beside strong figures from its U.S. rivals.
                        Reuters
                        16
                        There never was, perhaps, outwardly so tame a general election as Saturday's.
                        The Guardian
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                        Common
                        United States of America
                        Common
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                        Common