tame

Accustomed to human contact.

Docile or tranquil towards humans.

The lion was quite tame.

Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.

What, for example, were Fraunhofer's lines? McArdle had just been studying the matter with the aid of our tame scientist at the office, and he picked from his desk two of those many-coloured spectral bands which bear a general resemblance to the hat-ribbons of some young and ambitious cricket club.

Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.

The victim was Captain Bickenson, who had gone there from Port Darwin to try the pearling grounds, and for this purpose employed a number of tame blacks about the schooner.

Not exciting.

This party is too tame for me.

For a thriller, that film was really tame.

To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.

He tamed the wild horse.

Richard Wrangham has noted that the domestication of animals usually tames them by slowing down components of the developmental timetable to retain juvenile traits into adulthood, a process called pedomorphy or neoteny.

To make submissive or docile.

The governor tames the engine.

To take control of something that is unruly.

Police have to tame the riots.

To become tame or domesticated.

Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.

To make gentle or meek.

Guard dogs need to be tamed so that they know who not to attack.

None but Adrian could have tamed the motley population of London, which, like a troop of unbitted steeds rushing to their pastures, had thrown aside all minor fears, through the operation of the fear paramount.

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.