I. adjective
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The '70s series now seem tame by today's standards.
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By these standards, the monks' self-denial seems tame .
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Gardens contrived to divert the power of botanical growth into the tame artifacts of domesticated crops.
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In the centre would be several lines of trestle tables carrying cages for chicken, ducks and geese with a few tame rabbits.
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It had all been very tame .
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Not your weasel-faced tame magic, but root-and-branch magic, the old magic.
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Seen in comparison with the preceding axial age, the Hellenistic age is tame and conservative.
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The jokes, when they do come, are rather tame but still funny.
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These little fishes become quite tame and will respond at feeding time by rushing to their food like a litter of puppies.
II. verb
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Statistics show that rent control laws haven't tamed inflation.
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Children and, later, teenagers have to learn to put a brake on their impulses, to tame their desires.
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Don Bradman, the catalyst of the affair, was only temporarily tamed, as his Test batting average of 56.57 testified.
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He had fought a maddening, 24-hour battle against a river that California agriculture had tamed for more than a half century.
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Is there a product to tame my hair?
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These actions threw the economy into a recession, but also tamed the inflationary monster.
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Unlike her former co-star, Antonio Banderas, Abril has not been tamed by Hollywood.
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Where it should have tried harder, however, is with taming mechanical noise levels.