Usually means: Training to control or domesticate.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. taming: Merriam-Webster
  2. -taming, taming: Collins English Dictionary
  3. taming: Vocabulary.com
  4. Taming, taming: Wordnik
  5. taming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. taming: Wiktionary
  7. taming: Dictionary.com
  8. taming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Taming (shield), Taming: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Taming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Taming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. taming: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. taming: FreeDictionary.org
  14. taming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. taming: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. taming: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (taming)

▸ noun:  The process by which a person, animal or thing is tamed.

Similar:
tammy, tethering, tamping, yoking, tautening, tousling, fettering, caging, nettling, trapping, more...

Opposite:
untaming, wildness, ferality, unbridling

Types:
breaking, training, domesticating, conditioning, more...

Phrases:
taming of the shrew, The Taming of the Shrew, Taming the Tiger, The Taming of the Shrew on screen, Lion taming, more...

Adjectives:
old, gradual, worth, little, such, first, mere, successful, final, lion, self

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     soft pink,     lavender,     sage green, more...



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Similar:
tammy, tethering, tamping, yoking, tautening, tousling, fettering, caging, nettling, trapping, more...

Opposite:
untaming, wildness, ferality, unbridling

Types:
breaking, training, domesticating, conditioning, more...

Phrases:
taming of the shrew, The Taming of the Shrew, Taming the Tiger, The Taming of the Shrew on screen, Lion taming, Taming Strange, The Taming of the Shrewd, taming an animal, taming of the shrewd, more...

Adjectives:
old, gradual, worth, little, such, first, mere, successful, final, lion, self

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     soft pink,     lavender,     sage green, more...



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