taming

Verb (1)

tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)

1. (transitive) To make or become tame; to domesticate (an animal).
   • He tamed the wild horse.

   Synonyms:

   gentle

2. (transitive) To make submissive.
   • The governor tames the engine.
3. To take control of something that is unruly.
   • Police have to tame the riots.

Verb (2)

tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)

1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
   • In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC

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