Tame - definition, pronunciation, transcription
verb
- make less strong or intense; soften (syn: moderate, tone down)
adjective
Extra examples
The island's birds are quite tame.
They ran a pretty tame campaign.
Some people were shocked by the movie, but I found the story pretty tame.
Members of the audience were too tame to interrupt the speaker.
It took a while to tame the horse.
He struggled to tame his temper.
The government needs to do something to tame inflation.
His horse didn't tame that easily.
The first editors had tamed down some of the more startling statements of Pascal.
The author tamed the language in the play
The story tamed from almost the very beginning.
Most of the criticism has been pretty tame.
I decided that teaching was too tame for me.
If you have a tame doctor, he might give you a sick note.
The Prime Minister managed to tame the trade unions.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: tame
he/she/it: tames
present participle: taming
past tense: tamed
past participle: tamed
comparative: tamer
superlative: tamest
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