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tame

/teɪm/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
  2. To become tame or domesticated.
  3. To make gentle or meek.
  4. Not or no longer wild; domesticated
  5. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
  6. Not exciting.
  7. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  8. (of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
  9. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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