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Word entry · 4 letters

tame

Best crossword clue

"Not wild; domesticated"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /teɪm/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted aemtStarts with TEnds with E2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. correct by punishment or discipline

Word origin

From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”).

Used in a sentence

  • The lion was quite tame.
  • 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.
  • This party is too tame for me.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Not wild; domesticated4 letters
02Not wild4 letters

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