Main entry: chasten, tame, subdue
Definition: correct by punishment or discipline
Main entry: tame, domesticate
Definition: make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
Usage: The horse was domesticated a long time ago; The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog
Main entry: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame, reclaim
Definition: overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
Usage: He tames lions for the circus; reclaim falcons
Main entry: domesticate, cultivate, tame, naturalise, naturalize
Definition: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
Usage: domesticate oats; tame the soil
Main entry: tame, tone down, moderate
Definition: make less strong or intense; soften
Usage: Tone down that aggressive letter; The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements
Main entry: tame
Definition: flat and uninspiring
Definition: very docile
Usage: tame obedience; meek as a mouse- Langston Hughes
Definition: brought from wildness into a domesticated state
Usage: tame animals; fields of tame blueberries
Main entry: tame
Definition: very restrained or quiet
Usage: 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