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tame

(tām)

adj. tam·er, tam·est

1. Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.

2. Naturally unafraid; not timid: "The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame" (Peter Matthiessen).

3. Submissive; docile; fawning: tame obedience.

4. Insipid; flat: a tame birthday party.

5. Sluggish; languid; inactive: a tame river.

tr.v. tamed, tam·ing, tames

1. To make tame; domesticate: tame a wild horse.

2. To subdue or curb: tamed his explosive anger.

3. To change from an uncontrolled or disorderly to a controlled state: needed some gel to tame his hair.

[Middle English, from Old English tam; see demə- in Indo-European roots.]

tam′a·ble, tame′a·ble adj.

tame′ly adv.

tame′ness n.

tam′er n.

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Translations

addomesticamento

укрощение

taming

[ˈteɪmɪŋ] N → domadura f
"the Taming of the Shrew" → "la fierecilla domada"

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

taming

n → Zähmung f, → Bändigung f; “The Taming of the Shrew” → „Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung“

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

taming

[ˈteɪmɪŋ] n (gen) → addomesticamento
"The Taming of the Shrew" → "La Bisbetica Domata"

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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The taming of wild beasts and their domestication follows.

I believe that if their domestication were not purely the result of an accident, as, for example, my taming of the hyaenodon, it came about through the desire of tribes who had previously domesticated flocks and herds to have some strong, ferocious beast to guard their roam-ing property.

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