tame

adjective · verbA1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

tamer

Superlative

tamest

1.
(chiefly of animals) Accustomed to human contact.
2.
(chiefly of animals) Docile or tranquil towards humans.
The lion was quite tame.
3.
(figuratively)(figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
4.
(obsolete)Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
5.
Not exciting.
This party is too tame for me.
For a thriller, that film was really tame.
Đồng nghĩa: dull, flat, insipid, unexciting
6.
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
7.
(mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

tames

V_ing/Gerund

taming

V_ed/pp

tamed

1.
(transitive)To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
He tamed the wild horse.
2.
(transitive)To make submissive or docile.
The governor tames the engine.
3.
(transitive)To take control of something that is unruly.
Police have to tame the riots.
4.
(intransitive)To become tame or domesticated.
5.
(transitive)To make gentle or meek.
Guard dogs need to be tamed so that they know who not to attack.
6.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)(obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

dull flat insipid unexciting

Trái nghĩa

exciting wild

Cùng gốc / liên quan

entame overtame untame tamely tamenessa wild goose never laid a tame egghandtamepudding and tame

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (domesticated, tame), from *tam (tame), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (brought into the home, tame), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (to tame, dominate).