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(verb) correct by punishment or discipline |
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Synonyms: chasten, subdue |
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Related Words: alter, break, break in, change, domesticate, domesticize |
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(satellite adjective) flat and uninspiring |
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(adjective) brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" |
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Synonyms: tamed |
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Antonyms: wild |
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(adjective) 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" |
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Antonyms: wild |
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(satellite adjective) very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes |
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Synonyms: meek |
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