Synonyms: chasten, tame, subdue
Definition: correct by punishment or discipline
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: accommodate, adapt
Definition: make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
Usage: Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country
Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame, reclaim
Definition: overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
Usage: He tames lions for the circus; reclaim falcons
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: domesticate, cultivate, tame, naturalise, naturalize
Definition: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
Usage: domesticate oats; tame the soil
Similar words: accommodate, adapt
Definition: make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
Usage: Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: tame
Definition: flat and uninspiring
Similar words: unexciting
Definition: not exciting
Usage: an unexciting novel; lived an unexciting life
Definition: very docile
Usage: tame obedience; meek as a mouse- Langston Hughes
Similar words: docile
Definition: willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed
Usage: the docile masses of an enslaved nation
Definition: brought from wildness into a domesticated state
Usage: tame animals; fields of tame blueberries
Similar words: broken, broken in
Definition: tamed or trained to obey
Usage: a horse broken to the saddle; this old nag is well broken in
Similar words: cultivated
Definition: no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use
Usage: cultivated roses; cultivated blackberries
Definition: easily handled or managed
Usage: a gentle old horse, docile and obedient
Similar words: domestic, domesticated
Definition: converted or adapted to domestic use
Usage: domestic animals; domesticated plants like maize
Similar words: tamed
Definition: brought from wildness
Usage: the once inhospitable landscape is now tamed
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: subdued
Definition: quieted and brought under control
Usage: children were subdued and silent