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tameable

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tame  (tm)
adj. tam·er, tam·est
1. Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.
2. Naturally unafraid; not timid: "The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame" (Peter Matthiessen).
3. Submissive; docile; fawning: tame obedience.
4. Insipid; flat: a tame Christmas party.
5. Sluggish; languid; inactive: a tame river.
tr.v. tamed, tam·ing, tames
1. To make tractable; domesticate.
2. To subdue or curb.
3. To tone down; soften.
[Middle English, from Old English tam; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]
tama·ble, tamea·ble adj.
tamely adv.
tameness n.
tamer n.
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Adj.1.tameable - capable of being tamed
tamable
manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
Translations
tameable
adj → zähmbar
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