Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which tames.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who tames or subdues.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
tames orsubdues .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an animal trainer who tames wild animals
Etymologies
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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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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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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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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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