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Tempers

A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

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📖 Definitions of "Tempers"

noun

1
A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
"to have a good, bad, or calm temper"
2
State of mind; mood.
3
A tendency to become angry.
"He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople."
4
Anger; a fit of anger.
"an outburst of temper"

verb

1
To moderate or control.
"Temper your language around children."
2
To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
"Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature."
3
To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
4
To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Tempers"

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moodnoun	A mental or emotional state, composure.
moderatenoun	One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
hardennoun	A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SK0101).
toughnessnoun	(uncountable) The state of being tough.
humornoun	US spelling of humour. [(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.]
humournoun	(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
snappishnessnoun	The quality of being snappish.
piquenoun	(uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
chastenverb	To render humble or restrained.
pettishnessnoun	The state of being pettish; peevishness, irritability.
irritabilitynoun	The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability.
surlinessnoun	The property of being surly.
irritationnoun	The state of being irritated.
peevishnessnoun	The state of being peevish.
seasonnoun	Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
biliousnessnoun	The state of being bilious.
annealnoun	(chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.
feelings	the fifth studio album by David Byrne, released on June 17, 1997.
mindsnoun	an open-source and distributed social network.
mitigatesverb	(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.