1. reduced from a state of native wildness especially so as to be tractable and useful to humans
   
2. made docile and submissive
   
3. lacking spirit, zest, interest, or the capacity to excite

Taming

“Aiming at controlling nature, the capitalist organization of work must refuse the unpredictability implicit in the practice of magic, and the possibility of establishing a privileged relation with the natural elements, as well as the belief in the existence of powers available only to particular individuals, and thus not easily generalized and exploitable. [...] The world has to be ‘disenchanted’ in order to be dominated.”²