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Adjective: tempered tempurd- Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
"a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
- treated, hardened, toughened - Adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
"criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"
Verb: temper tempu(r)- Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
"temper glass"
- anneal, normalize, normalise [Brit] - Harden by reheating and cooling in oil
"temper steel"
- harden - Adjust the pitch (of pianos)
- Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
"she tempered her criticism"
- season, mollify - Restrain
- chasten, moderate
See also: curable, sunbaked, temperance, tempering Type of: adjust, alter, change, correct, harden, indurate, modify, set, weaken Antonym: untempered Encyclopedia: Temper Tempered |