| tame | | |
| v. (change) | 1. chasten, subdue, tame | correct by punishment or discipline. |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (communication) | 2. moderate, tame, tone down | make less strong or intense; soften.; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (change) | 3. cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame | adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" |
| ~ plant life, flora, plant | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion. |
| ~ adapt, accommodate | make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" |
| v. (change) | 4. domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame | overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" |
| ~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ break in, break | make submissive, obedient, or useful.; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern" |
| ~ domesticate, tame | make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans.; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" |
| v. (change) | 5. domesticate, tame | make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans.; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" |
| ~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| ~ adapt, accommodate | make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" |
| ~ domesticise, domesticize, domesticate, tame, reclaim | overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" |
| adj. | 6. tame | flat and uninspiring. |
| ~ unexciting | not exciting.; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life" |
| adj. | 7. tame | very restrained or quiet.; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed" |
| ~ quiet | characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity.; "a quiet life"; "a quiet throng of onlookers"; "quiet peace-loving people"; "the factions remained quiet for almost 10 years" |
| ~ subdued | quieted and brought under control.; "children were subdued and silent" |
| adj. | 8. tame, tamed | brought from wildness into a domesticated state.; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" |
| ~ broken in, broken | tamed or trained to obey.; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in" |
| ~ cultivated | no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use.; "cultivated roses"; "cultivated blackberries" |
| ~ docile, gentle | easily handled or managed.; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient" |
| ~ domesticated, domestic | converted or adapted to domestic use.; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize" |
| ~ tamed | brought from wildness.; "the once inhospitable landscape is now tamed" |
| ~ manipulable, tractable | easily managed (controlled or taught or molded).; "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition" |
| adj. | 9. meek, tame | very docile.; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse" |
| ~ docile | willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed.; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" |
| beast | | |
| n. (tops) | 1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| ~ organism, being | a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently. |
| ~ ritual killing, sacrifice | the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity. |
| ~ tracking, trailing | the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind. |
| ~ animal kingdom, animalia, kingdom animalia | taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals. |
| ~ pest | any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc..; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides" |
| ~ critter | a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals). |
| ~ creepy-crawly | an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects). |
| ~ darter | a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly.; "squirrels are darters" |
| ~ peeper | an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds. |
| ~ homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm | an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature. |
| ~ ectotherm, poikilotherm | an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals. |
| ~ range animal | any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep). |
| ~ varment, varmint | any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote. |
| ~ scavenger | any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter. |
| ~ work animal | an animal trained for and used for heavy labor. |
| ~ domestic animal, domesticated animal | any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment. |
| ~ feeder | an animal that feeds on a particular source of food.; "a bark feeder"; "a mud feeder" |
| ~ migrator | an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year. |
| ~ molter, moulter | an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair). |
| ~ pet | a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement. |
| ~ stayer | a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance.; "the horse that won the race is a good stayer" |
| ~ stunt | a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth. |
| ~ marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature | any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals. |
| ~ female | an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa). |
| ~ male | an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova). |
| ~ adult | any mature animal. |
| ~ young, offspring | any immature animal. |
| ~ pureblood, purebred, thoroughbred | a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses. |
| ~ giant | any creature of exceptional size. |
| ~ survivor | an animal that survives in spite of adversity.; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters" |
| ~ mutant | an animal that has undergone mutation. |
| ~ herbivore | any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants.; "horses are herbivores"; "the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores" |
| ~ insectivore | any organism that feeds mainly on insects. |
| ~ acrodont | an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets. |
| ~ pleurodont | an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets. |
| ~ micro-organism, microorganism | any organism of microscopic size. |
| ~ actinomycete | any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales. |
| ~ zooplankton | animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae. |
| ~ conceptus, fertilized egg, embryo | an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life. |
| ~ chordate | any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column. |
| ~ invertebrate | any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification. |
| ~ metazoan | any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges. |
| ~ omnivore | an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances. |
| ~ predatory animal, predator | any animal that lives by preying on other animals. |
| ~ prey, quarry | animal hunted or caught for food. |
| ~ game | animal hunted for food or sport. |
| ~ hexapod | an animal having six feet. |
| ~ biped | an animal with two feet. |
| ~ larva | the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose. |
| ~ racer | an animal that races. |
| ~ fictional animal | animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories). |
| ~ trap | a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned. |
| ~ humaneness | the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals). |
| ~ body, organic structure, physical structure | the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being).; "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" |
| ~ animal tissue | the tissue in the bodies of animals. |
| ~ head, caput | the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains.; "he stuck his head out the window" |
| ~ side | either the left or right half of a body.; "he had a pain in his side" |
| ~ face | the part of an animal corresponding to the human face. |
| ~ nose | the sense of smell (especially in animals).; "the hound has a good nose" |
| ~ diet | the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal). |
| ~ transmitter, vector | any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease.; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects" |
| ~ captive | an animal that is confined. |
| ~ mate | the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner).; "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates" |
| ~ sitter | an organism (person or animal) that sits. |
| ~ stander | an organism (person or animal) that stands.; "a crowd of sitters and standers" |
| ~ wart | any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals). |
| ~ schistosome dermatitis, swimmer's itch | a sensitization reaction to repeated invasion of the skin by cercariae of schistosomes. |
| ~ debone, bone | remove the bones from.; "bone the turkey before roasting it" |
| ~ domesticate, tame | make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans.; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" |
| ~ domesticise, domesticize, domesticate, tame, reclaim | overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" |
| ~ drench | force to drink. |
| ~ pasture, graze, crop | let feed in a field or pasture or meadow. |
| ~ topknotted, crested, tufted | (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination.; "golden crested"; "crested iris"; "crested oriole"; "tufted duck"; "tufted loosestrife" |
| ~ bone-covered | (of animals) armored with bone. |
| ~ free-swimming, unattached | (of animals) able to swim about; not attached. |
| ~ hispid | (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles.; "plants with hispid stems" |
| ~ flesh-eating, meat-eating, zoophagous | (of animals) carnivorous. |
| ~ phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous, plant-eating | (of animals) feeding on plants. |
| ~ all-devouring | (of animals) both plant-eating and flesh-eating. |
| ~ insectivorous | (of animals and plants) feeding on insects. |
| ~ epizootic | (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region.; "an epizootic disease" |
| ~ adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup, big | (of animals) fully developed.; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" |
| ~ half-blooded, half-bred, half-breed | (of animals) having only one purebred parent. |
| ~ registered | (of animals) officially recorded with or certified by a recognized breed association; especially in a stud book.; "a registered Percheron" |
| ~ unregistered | (of animals) not recorded with or certified by an official breed association.; "unregistered dairy cattle" |
| ~ gregarious | (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species.; "gregarious bird species" |
| ~ social | tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind.; "ants are social insects" |
| n. (person) | 2. beast, brute, savage, wildcat, wolf | a cruelly rapacious person. |
| ~ aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker | someone who attacks. |
| brute | | |
| adj. | 1. beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish | resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility.; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" |
| ~ inhumane | lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion.; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used" |
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