permit vs tame

permit

verb
  • To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to. 

  • To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. 

  • To allow for, to make something possible. 

  • To allow, to admit (of). 

  • To grant formal authorization for (something). 

  • To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for (something). 

noun
  • A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus. 

  • An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal. 

  • A learner's permit. 

tame

verb
  • To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. 

  • To make gentle or meek. 

  • To become tame or domesticated. 

adj
  • Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. 

  • Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact. 

  • Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme. 

  • Not or no longer wild; domesticated. 

  • Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain. 

  • Not exciting. 

How often have the words permit and tame occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )