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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.