Synonyms:
tame, chasten, subdue
Meaning: correct by punishment or discipline
Usage examples
"We can not tame an eagle as we can a barnyard fowl.
Maybe we shall find another that is tame and gentle."
But that would be quite tame in comparison with this."
"He laid a wager he would tame Medeah in the space of six months.
If I could tame it--but that is out of the question; the more I try, the worse I seem to make it.
But at length he explained, in a tremulous tone, There was only one Beaver on board; And that was a tame one he had of his own, Whose death would be deeply deplored.
But after the Major's display her best efforts at vocal violence missed their full effect; it was as though one had come straight out from a Wagner opera into a rather tame thunderstorm.
All at once this post of Conjuror's House, a month in the wilderness as it was, seemed very small and tame and civilized for the simple reason that Death did not always compass it about.
Nor let any flesh of horses, or of mules, or of asses, he brought into the city, whether they be wild or tame; nor that of leopards, or foxes, or hares; and, in general, that of any animal which is forbidden for the Jews to eat.
although, as you very justly observe, of a suspicious and untractable character, let him be mine, however," he added, after a pause, "perhaps a rider like Frederick of Metzengerstein, may tame even the devil from the stables of Berlifitzing."