1. tame - Adjective
2. tame - Verb
4. tame - Adjective Satellite
5. Tame - Proper noun
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
Source: Webster's dictionaryImagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul. John Chrysostom
The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous. John Climacus
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. Bryan Procter
A wild goose never reared a tame gosling. Irish Proverb
Age and marriage tame the beast. Haitian Proverb
The savage ox grows tame on strange ground. Portuguese Proverb