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tamed 音标拼音: [t'emd] tamed adj 1: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; " tame animals"; " fields of tame blueberries" [ synonym: { tame}, { tamed}] [ ant: { untamed}, { wild}] 2: brought from wildness; " the once inhospitable landscape is now tamed" Tame \ Tame\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Tamed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Taming}.] [ AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. z[ aum] hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See { Tame}, a.] 1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. [ 1913 Webster] They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth. [ 1913 Webster] 23 Moby Thesaurus words for " tamed": broken, brought low, chastened, crushed, domesticated, dovelike, gentle, housebroke, housebroken, humble, humbled, humiliated, lamblike, made to grovel, meek, mild, pacific, peaceable, quelled, quiet, reduced, subdued, tame
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