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Adjective tempered has 2 senses
- tempered, treated, hardened, toughened - made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
Antonyms: untempered, unhardened, brittle, unannealed
- tempered - adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element; "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"
Antonyms: untempered, unmoderated
Verb temper has 5 senses
- anneal, temper, normalize - toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass"
--1 is one way to toughen
Sample sentence:
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- temper, harden - harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel"
--2 is one way to modify
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- temper - adjust the pitch (of pianos)
--3 is one way to adjust, set, correct
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- temper, season, mollify - make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"
--4 is one way to weaken
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- chasten, moderate, temper - restrain or temper
--5 is one way to change, alter, modify
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Somebody ----s somebody
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