| anglais > français | |
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| tame | |
| 1. v. Dompter, apprivoiser, domestiquer. | |
| 2. adj. Apprivoisé, domestiqué. | |
| 3. adj. Conventionnel, pas excitant. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
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| tame | |
| 1. adj. Not or no longer wild; domesticated |  |
| They have a tame wildcat. | |
| 2. adj. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact | |
| The lion was quite tame. | |
| 3. adj. Not exciting | |
| This party is too tame for me. | |
| For a thriller, that film was really tame. | |
| 4. adj. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless | |
| 5. adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain. | |
| 6. v. To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | |
| He tamed the wild horse. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated. | |
| 8. v. To make gentle or meek. | |
| to tame a rebellion | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. | |
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