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Definition of tame : 1. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
2. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
3. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
4. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
5. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
6. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

Synonyms:

school, teachable, kindly, harmless, mild, weak, bloodless, reduce, repossess, crucify, quash, soften, undomesticated, naturalize, halfhearted, damp, wild, mince, civilize, cultivated, muffle, get over, animated, inhibit, lead, broken in, subdue, trained, subjugate, civilized, moderate, insipid, subordinate, rectify, spirited, regenerate, chasten, manageable, alive, spiritless, work, feeble, keep down, dampen, stamp down, correct, dull, half-baked, unexciting, check, uninteresting, castigate, suppress, hold, crop, domesticated, docile, domesticize, broken, educate, reform, subdued, domesticise, limp, contain, meek, monotonous, mute, overcome, objurgate, reclaim, control, chair, tone down, muzzled, tamed, civilise, flat, obedient, temper, repress, modest, conquer, cultivate, naturalise, gentle, routine, domestic, chastise, surmount, recover, hold in, mortify, master, conventional, curb

farm, breed, train, herd, ranch, hostle, domesticate, housebreak, groom, break, wrangle

ductile, ready, plastic, earnest, acquiescent, pliable, malleable, eager, biddable, assenting, tractable, submissive, pliant, yielding, agreeable, compliant, flexible, cooperative, receptive, willing, susceptible, amenable, adaptable, persuadable

Usage examples:

• He can rebel as little as the moon can rebel against the earth, or a tame house- dog suddenly become a raging wolf. - "A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)", Felix Dahn.
• Indeed, the old ones were quite tame, and not at all afraid of her. - "Frank and Fanny", Mrs. Clara Moreton.
• Tell me where lives that thing so meek and tame, That doth not all his living faculties Put forth in preservation of his life? - "The Death of Wallenstein A Play", Frederich Schiller.