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