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

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

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

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

Encyclopedia: Tamed