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tamest | camest |

As an adjective tamest

is (tame).

As a verb camest is

(archaic).

tamest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (tame)

    • Anagrams

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    tame

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Not or no longer wild; domesticated
    • They have a tame wildcat.
  • (chiefly, of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
    • The lion was quite tame .
  • Not exciting
    • This party is too tame for me.
    For a thriller, that film was really tame .
  • Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  • * Roscommon
    • tame slaves of the laborious plough
  • (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "tame")
    Synonyms
    * (not exciting) dull, insipid
    Antonyms
    * (not wild) wild * (mild and well-behaved) gentle * (not exciting) exciting * (mathematics) wild
    Derived terms
    * tamely * tameness

    Verb

  • to make something
    • He tamed the wild horse.
  • to become
    • Derived terms
    * tamer

    External links

    * ("tame" on Wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Verb

    (tam)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
  • * Fuller
    • In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.

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    camest

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic)
  • * But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. ~ Deuteronomy 16:6.