Synonyms:
tame, tamed
Meaning: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
Synonyms:
tamed
Meaning: brought from wildness; "the once inhospitable landscape is now tamed"
Usage examples
We have tamed a wilderness; we have spanned a continent.
"In the Country of Darkness" Alexander fed and tamed great birds which were larger than eagles.
The only conclusion they could yet arrive at was, that somehow or other the old demon-painter must be tamed.
There were young foxes, bears, wolves, raccoons, fawns, buffalo calves and birds of all kinds, tamed by various boys.
'She's kept tolerably well under, ain't she?' he asked as he resumed his seat: in the tone of a keeper who had tamed some wild animal.
"A willful elf--an uncle's child, That half a pet and half a pest, Was still reproved, endured, caressed, Yet never tamed, though never spoiled."
They could find no praise warm enough for the man who had "organized the echoes" and "tamed the lightning," and whose career was so picturesque with eventful and romantic development.
He not only caught the monster, but tamed him, and bore him aloft on his shoulders, into the presence of the affrighted Eurystheus, who was at a loss to find a task impossible for Hercules to perform.
We hove in sight just in time to drive the cannibals off. We kept Wolf, sewed up his side and throat, tamed him--and to-morrow night you will see how Mukoki has taught him to get even with his people."
We may add, that there must be still a wider difference between man and man in a savage and domestic condition, than between beast and beast; for as men and beasts have been treated alike by nature, all the conveniences with which men indulge themselves more than they do the beasts tamed by them, are so many particular causes which make them degenerate more sensibly.