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tame 音標拼音: [t'em] a. 馴服的,柔順的,被開墾的,順從的,乏味的,平淡的
vt. 馴養,馴服,制服 馴服的,柔順的,被開墾的,順從的,乏味的,平淡的馴養,馴服,制服 tame adj 1: flat and uninspiring 2: very restrained or quiet; " a tame Christmas party"; " she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed" [ ant: { wild}] 3: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; " tame animals"; " fields of tame blueberries" [ synonym: { tame}, { tamed}] [ ant: { untamed}, { wild}] 4: very docile; " tame obedience"; " meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes [ synonym: { meek}, { tame}] v 1: correct by punishment or discipline [ synonym: { tame}, { chasten}, { subdue}] 2: make less strong or intense; soften; " Tone down that aggressive letter"; " The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements" [ synonym: { tone down}, { moderate}, { tame}] 3: adapt ( a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; " domesticate oats"; " tame the soil" [ synonym: { domesticate}, { cultivate}, { naturalize}, { naturalise}, { tame}] 4: overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; " He tames lions for the circus"; " reclaim falcons" [ synonym: { domesticate}, { domesticize}, { domesticise}, { reclaim}, { tame}] 5: make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; " The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; " The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" [ synonym: { domesticate}, { tame}] 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]
Tame \ Tame\, v. t. [ Cf. F. entamer to cut into, to broach.] To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [ 1913 Webster] In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster]
Tame \ Tame\, a. [ Compar. { Tamer}; superl. { Tamest}.] [ AS. tam; akin to D. tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel. tamr, L. domare to tame, Gr. ?, Skr. dam to be tame, to tame, and perhaps to E. beteem. [ root] 61. Cf. { Adamant}, { Diamond}, { Dame}, { Daunt}, { Indomitable}.] 1. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. [ 1913 Webster] Tame slaves of the laborious plow. -- Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Gentle; mild; meek. See { Gentle}. [ 1913 Webster] 202 Moby Thesaurus words for " tame": abate, abeyant, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, allay, alleviate, amenable, apathetic, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, bed, bed down, biddable, bland, blunt, boring, break, break in, break to harness, bridle, broken, brush, bust, busted, calm, case harden, cataleptic, catatonic, chasten, chastened, compliant, condition, confirm, constrain, control, cowardly, curb, curry, currycomb, damp, dampen, de- emphasize, dead, deaden, diminish, disciplined, docile, domestic, domesticate, domesticated, domesticize, domiciliate, dopey, dormant, dovelike, downplay, drench, dull, establish, extenuate, familiarize, fearless, feeble, feed, fix, flat, fodder, foul, gentle, groggy, groom, habituate, handle, harden, harness, heavy, hitch, house- train, housebreak, housebroken, humble, humdrum, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, ineffectual, inert, insipid, inure, judicious, keep within bounds, lamblike, languid, languorous, latent, lay, leaden, lenify, lessen, lifeless, lighten, lily- livered, litter, logy, manage, master, meek, mild, mild as milk, milk, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, mute, naturalize, nonviolent, obedient, obtund, ordinary, orient, orientate, pacific, pacifistic, pacify, palliate, passive, peaceable, peaceful, phlegmatic, play down, pliable, pliant, prosaic, prudent, pusillanimous, quiet, reduce, reduce the temperature, restrain, rub down, run- of- the- mill, saddle, season, sedentary, slack, slacken, sleeping, slow down, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, smother, sober, sober down, soft, soften, stagnant, standing, static, stifle, subdue, subdued, subjugate, submissive, suppress, suppressed, suspended, tamed, tedious, temper, temperate, tend, timid, timorous, tiresome, tone down, torpid, tractable, train, trained, tune down, unafraid, unaroused, unassertive, underplay, unexciting, uninspired, uninteresting, vapid, water, weaken, white- livered, wishy- washy, wont, yellow, yoke
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