Definition of "taming" []

• Present participle of tame. (verb)

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• "Using two opposite strategies, one focused and one broad, scientists say they have made progress in taming two of the most intractable types of cancer."
• "Saints and hermits were frequently described as taming bears, and reducing them to menial servants, in order to show the faithful how the power of God could exorcise the Devil and reduce him to harmless submission."
• "Although our male and female passengers demonstrated a similar interest in taming Ngungwe, in redefining the place and its people as harmless in the uncertain early aftermath of the war, the men and women who accompanied us were heading there for distinctly different purposes."