Definitions
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- n. One who tames or subdues.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who tames or subdues.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which tames.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an animal trainer who tames wild animals
Etymologies
Examples
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Liberty's right 100% about this site and keeping it PG or tamer is probably a good thing.
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But he too was soon tamed and went on to star in tamer fare like the Doctor films, though he later escaped abroad to become an internationally acclaimed film actor.
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Andy was what he himself called a tamer of wild ones, and he was hard upon his riding gear.
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A professor of mine in college asked us once, “When you go to the circus, and you see a lion and a lion tamer, which is the one with the real power?”
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Does she possess, then, what is called tamer's magnetism?
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In 2009, another Super Bowl ad - which Mr. Biderman described as tamer than their latest - was rejected by NBC.
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Granted, he accomplished that be creating even more despicable Nazis that make the "tamer" soldiers pale by comparison.
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But every now and then, there will be one individual a bit "tamer" than the rest.
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When William first appears in this pseudo-epos, 1we see him as a kind of tamer, less attractive Werther; less imaginative than Werther, less of a poet, but like Werther vague, unpractical, self-involved, indulging to excess a shallower sensibility and a poorer kind of passion.
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"The 'tamer' will not be ready until later next month and that is when we will start receiving them at our centres," added Ghanim.
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