Decrease and Tame

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

verb

• Correct by punishment or discipline.
  • synonyms: chasten, subdue
• Make less strong or intense; soften.
  • usage: "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
  • synonyms: tone down, moderate
• Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.
  • usage: "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
  • synonyms: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise
• Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.
  • usage: "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
  • synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim
• Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans.
  • usage: "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
  • synonyms: domesticate

adjective

• Flat and uninspiring.
• Very restrained or quiet.
  • usage: "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"
• Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
  • usage: "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
  • synonyms: tamed
• Very docile."tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse- Langston Hughes
  • synonyms: meek

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

• Name Meaning: Unselfish
• Name Origin: Japanese