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1. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state
   "tamed animals";
   - tame
    
2. Brought from wildness
   "the once inhospitable landscape is now tamed"

1. Correct by punishment or discipline
   - chasten, subdue
    
2. Make less strong or intense; soften
   "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements";
   - tone down, moderate, mod [informal]
    
3. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
   "tame the soil";
   - domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise [Brit]
    
4. Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
   "He tames lions for the circus";
   - domesticate, domesticize, domesticise [Brit], reclaim
    
5. Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
   "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog";
   - domesticate

See also: broken, broken in, cultivated, docile, domestic, domesticated, domestication, gentle, manipulable, manipulatable, tameness, tractable

Type of: accommodate, adapt, alter, change, modify

Encyclopedia: Tamed