adjective
                                                made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
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                                                                                                        - a sword of tempered steel
- tempered glass
 
                                                                                        
                                                adjective
                                                adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
                                                
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                                                                                                        - criticism tempered with kindly sympathy
 
                                                                                        
                                                verb
                                                bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
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                                                                                                        - temper glass
 
                                                                                        
                                                verb
                                                harden by reheating and cooling in oil
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                                                                                                        - temper steel
 
                                                                                        
                                                verb
                                                adjust the pitch (of pianos)
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                                                verb
                                                make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
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                                                                                                        - she tempered her criticism
 
                                                                                        
                                                verb
                                                change by restraining or moderating
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