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tamed
(encz) | tamed,zkrocený adj: PetrV |
Tamed
(gcide) | 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.
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They had not been tamed into submission, but baited
into savegeness and stubbornness. --Macaulay.
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2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride
or passions of youth.
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tamed
(wn) | tamed
adj 1: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame
animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" [syn: tame,
tamed] [ant: untamed, wild]
2: brought from wildness; "the once inhospitable landscape is
now tamed" |
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datamedia
(encz) | Datamedia, |
tamed
(encz) | tamed,zkrocený adj: PetrV |
untamed
(encz) | untamed,nezkrocený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Untamed
(gcide) | Untamed \Untamed\
See tamed. |
tamed
(wn) | tamed
adj 1: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame
animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" [syn: tame,
tamed] [ant: untamed, wild]
2: brought from wildness; "the once inhospitable landscape is
now tamed" |
untamed
(wn) | untamed
adj 1: in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or
cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants" [syn:
wild, untamed] [ant: tame, tamed] |
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