Taming Synonyms

Make less strong or intense; soften
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tempering
  2. subduing
  3. softening
  4. moderating
  5. qualifying
  6. muting
Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. mastering
  2. reclaiming
  3. domesticating
  4. gentling
  5. busting
  6. training
  7. suppressing
  8. subjugating
  9. subduing
  10. repressing
  11. pruning
  12. managing
  13. humbling
  14. dulling
  15. breaking
  16. dominating
  17. disciplining
  18. curbing
  19. controlling
  20. conquering
Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. naturalizing
  2. mastering
  3. cultivating
  4. gentling
  5. domesticating
Correct by punishment or discipline
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. subduing
  2. chastening

Words Related to Taming

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. increasing
  2. shrew
  3. Williams/Farrah

Taming Sentence Examples

  • The Abyssinians are great hunters and are also clever at taming wild beasts.

  • Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew has been influenced in several respects (including the names Tranio and Grumio) by the Mostellaria.

  • Parents are free to disinherit their children; and, if a son separates from the family without his father's permission, he receives no share of the property except a gun and his wife's dowry.3 The Lapps are of necessity conservative in most of their habits, many of which can hardly have altered since the first taming of the reindeer.

  • Agricultural terms, the names of the metals and the word for smith are all of Scandinavian origin, and the words for "taming" and "milk" would suggest that the southern strangers taught the Lapps how to turn the reindeer to full account.

  • The story of Njavvisena, daughter of the Sun, is full of quaint folk-lore about the taming of the reindeer.

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