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English to English adjective
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made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment |  | Example: a sword of tempered steel
tempered glass
source: wordnet30
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adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element | | Example: criticism tempered with kindly sympathy
source: wordnet30
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Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword. | | source: webster1913
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