The Clue
Sans spice (4 letter answer)
The Answer
TAME
Tags
Notes
The answer TAME is seen frequently, appearing about once every 100 puzzles.
Related Clues
Break
Docile
Domesticate
Domesticated
Housebroken
Insipid
Mild
Rein in
Subdue
PG-rated
Unexciting
Unracy
Unresisting
Antonym of feral
Barely risqué
Break a bronco
Break, in a way
Bring to submission
Broken, as a bronco
Easy to manage
Far from feral
Far from risqué
Feral's opposite
Friendly to humans
Hardly feisty
Lacking excitement
Lacking spice
Lacking zest
Non-feral
Not electric
Not exciting
Make a beast behave
How Kate ended up
What Petruchio's Kate became
Definition
TAME as a verb:
1. (tame, chasten, subdue) = correct by punishment or discipline
2. (tone down, moderate, tame) = make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
3. (domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame) = adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
4. (domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame) = overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
5. (domesticate, tame) = make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
TAME as an adjective:
1. flat and uninspiring
2. very restrained or quiet; "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"
3. (tame, tamed) = brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
4. (meek, tame) = very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes