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Noun temper has 4 senses
- pique, temper, irritation - a sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp firewood"
--1 is a kind of annoyance, chafe, vexation
- temper, mood, humor, humour - a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
--2 is a kind of feeling
--2 has particulars:
- temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness - a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
--3 is a kind of ill nature
--3 has particulars: querulousness
- temper, toughness - the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
--4 is a kind of elasticity, snap
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
Sample sentence:
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- temper - adjust the pitch (of pianos)
--3 is one way to adjust, set, correct
Sample sentence:
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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
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- chasten, moderate, temper - restrain or temper
--5 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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