Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tamable.
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- adjective   Able to betamed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being tamed
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Examples
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								That, and the colonization of the globe, meant that from an ever-present environment that was unpredictable and dangerous, nature began to be understandable and even tameable. Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity Heather McDougal 2008 
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								That, and the colonization of the globe, meant that from an ever-present environment that was unpredictable and dangerous, nature began to be understandable and even tameable. Archive 2008-01-01 Heather McDougal 2008 
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								She, like Moyo, describes the Bank as the center of a barely tameable "aid industry" in which half a million employees rely on aid for their salaries. Jake Whitney: Betraying the Tribe: Michela Wrong and the Foundations of African Corruption 2009 
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								Moving characters into nature from the controlled conditions of urban life often means that they are more wild, less tameable, and outside the usual order of things. A Complete And Utter Spoiler Of Terrence Malick's 1973 "Badlands" 2008 
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								Moving characters into nature from the controlled conditions of urban life often means that they are more wild, less tameable, and outside the usual order of things. Archive 2008-02-01 2008 
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								The garden is a wild thing, but tameable, sort of. 
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								Some present results; a tree, a quail, a rock, a hawk rousing one's mind from safety and tameable illness to beautiful comprehension in the form of a hunch as patience directs the finishing line is a trail of feathers to brush. Helen's Poems 2006 
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								Brother Michael's hortatory letters from his deathbed, a gold locket containing a spray of Aunt Imelda's un tameable mop of white hair, a folder of personal correspondence including Lord Brinkley's letter to me and his Christmas cards, and the sturdy cloth shoulder-bag that had carried home the ingredients for my coq au vin. The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006 
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								To these I added my father's life-stained missal, Brother Michael's hortatory letters from his deathbed, a gold locket containing a spray of Aunt Imelda's un tameable mop of white hair, a folder of personal correspondence including Lord Brinkley's letter to me and his Christmas cards, and the sturdy cloth shoulder-bag that had carried home the ingredients for my coq au vin. the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006 
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								Some present results; a tree, a quail, a rock, a hawk rousing one's mind from safety and tameable illness to beautiful comprehension in the form of a hunch as patience directs the finishing line is a trail of feathers to brush. Archive 2006-05-01 2006 
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