tame
tame is a valid 4-letter word worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
What does tame mean?
Correct by punishment or discipline.
Make less strong or intense; soften.
“The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements”
Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.
“He tames lions for the circus”
Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans.
“The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog”
Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.
“tame the soil”
Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
“tame animals”
“fields of tame blueberries”
Very docile.
“tame obedience”
Flat and uninspiring.
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”