Tame \Tame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.]

[AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. z[aum]hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See Tame, a.]

1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. [1913 Webster]

They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

23 Moby Thesaurus words for "tamed": broken, brought low, chastened, crushed, domesticated, dovelike, gentle, housebroke, housebroken, humble, humbled, humiliated, lamblike, made to grovel, meek, mild, pacific, peaceable, quelled, quiet, reduced, subdued, tame

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

tamed adj
1: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" [syn: tame] [ant: wild]
2: brought from wildness; "the once inhospitable landscape is now tamed"

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Tame \Tame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.]

[AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. z["a]hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See Tame, a.]

1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.

They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness. --Macaulay.

2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)