taming
Making something docile
Taming is the process of making a wild animal docile and accustomed to human contact.
The word extends to subduing or bringing under control anything unruly: taming inflation, taming her wild curls.
Shakespeare's *The Taming of the Shrew* uses the word for breaking a woman's independent spirit—a usage now recognized as troubling.
Forced entry or conditioning
- handlingTreatment or management
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- commandsAuthoritative orders given
- rewardsBenefits given for merit
reinforcement · repetition · patience · trust-building · desensitization · socialization · habituation · whispering
Control over impulses
- subduingBringing under control
- masteringAttaining full command
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- subjugationForcing into submission
breaking · submission · obedience · command · authority · handling · management · containment
Reproductive cultivation of organisms
- husbandryFarm management practice
- animal husbandryRaising domesticated beasts systematically
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- horsesLarge domesticated hoofed mammals
cattle · falconry · captivity · enclosure · pedigree · selective breeding · captive breeding · zoo
Wild after domestication
- wildNot domesticated or controlled
- savageFierce and untamed
- ferocityExtreme violent intensity
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
spirit · bucking · rearing · biting · aggression · skittishness · wariness · flight response
Defeating and taking control
- masteringAttaining full command
- overcomingDefeating a challenge
- subduingBringing under control
- curbingLimiting or restraining
tempering · mellowing · softening · calming · quieting · channeling · harnessing · managing
breaking in
Forced entry or conditioning
- handlingTreatment or management
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- commandsAuthoritative orders given
rewards · reinforcement · repetition · patience · trust-building · desensitization · socialization · habituation · whispering · clicker
restraint
Control over impulses
- subduingBringing under control
- masteringAttaining full command
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
subjugation · breaking · submission · obedience · command · authority · handling · management · containment · curbing
breeding
Reproductive cultivation of organisms
- husbandryFarm management practice
- animal husbandryRaising domesticated beasts systematically
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
horses · cattle · falconry · captivity · enclosure · pedigree · selective breeding · captive breeding · zoo · menagerie
feral
Wild after domestication
instinct · spirit · bucking · rearing · biting · aggression · skittishness · wariness · flight response · predatory
conquering
Defeating and taking control
- masteringAttaining full command
- overcomingDefeating a challenge
- subduingBringing under control
curbing · tempering · mellowing · softening · calming · quieting · channeling · harnessing · managing · controlling
- Monster TamersPokemon, Digimon, capture, breeding, evolution
- bird trainingclicker training, step up, step down, recall training, flight training
- animals and humanspets, cats, dogs, pet ownership, companion animals
- animal activitiespetting, feeding, training, grooming, riding
- game activitiescooking, crafting, farming, fishing, mining
- livestock workherding dogs, cattle drives, shepherding, penning, gathering
tamingwilding
Mob assault spree
rewilding · releasing · unleashing · untaming · freeing
tamingreleasing
Allowing to escape
freeing · liberating · emancipating · unchaining · uncaging
- lion tamingControlling large wild cats
- Taming of the ShrewElizabethan battle-of-sexes comedy
- monster tamingControlling fantastical beasts
- Taming of ShrewControlling a difficult spouse
- beast tamingSubduing wild creatures