tame
verb/teɪm/
/teɪm/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they tame | /teɪm/ /teɪm/ |
| he / she / it tames | /teɪmz/ /teɪmz/ |
| past simple tamed | /teɪmd/ /teɪmd/ |
| past participle tamed | /teɪmd/ /teɪmd/ |
| -ing form taming | /ˈteɪmɪŋ/ /ˈteɪmɪŋ/ |
- tame something to make an animal, bird, etc. not afraid of people and used to living with them
- Lions can never be completely tamed.
- tame something to make an emotion, an organization, a situation, etc., less powerful or easier to control
- She made strenuous efforts to tame her anger.
- the battle to tame inflation
Word OriginOld English tam (adjective), temmian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tam and German zahm, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin domare and Greek daman ‘tame, subdue’.
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