Tempering Synonyms and Antonyms

Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hardening
  2. dry
  3. mollifying
  4. setting
  5. molding
  6. petrifying
  7. starching
  8. indurating
  9. congealing
  10. vulcanizing
  11. cementing
  12. stiffening
  13. chilling
  14. baking
  15. annealing
  16. seasoning
  17. steeling
Antonyms:
  1. softening
  2. dissolving
  3. bending
  4. melting
Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. softening
  2. restraining
  3. curbing
  4. moderating
  5. qualifying
  6. soothing
  7. taming
  8. seasoning
  9. chastening
  10. regulating
  11. subduing
  12. raging
  13. modifying
  14. mollifying
  15. annealing
  16. minding
  17. humoring
  18. abating
  19. fitting
  20. diluting
  21. mitigating
  22. easing
  23. controlling
  24. composing
  25. assuaging
  26. muting
  27. pacifying
  28. appeasing
  29. angering
  30. adjusting
  31. adapting
Antonyms:
  1. upsetting
  2. exciting
  3. attacking
  4. aggravating
  5. agitating
  6. infuriating
To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. moderating
Hardening something by heat treatment
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. annealing

Tempering Sentence Examples

  • The peculiarity of these steels is that no quenching or tempering is required.

  • He could never make the rights over the drink traffic uniform and equal, nor restrict privileges in the matter of the taille; while he was soon much embarrassed, not only by the coalition of particular interests and local immunities, which made despotism acceptable by tempering it, but also by Louis XIV.s two masterpassions for conquest and for building.

  • The solution came abOut by arranging the elements in the order of their atomic weights, tempering the arrangement with the results deduced from the theory of valencies and experimental observations.

  • But the invaluable and rather delicate art of tempering the hardened steel by a very careful and gentle reheating, which removes its extreme brittleness though leaving most of ifs precious hardness, needs such skilful handling that it can hardly have become known until very long after the art of hot-forging.

  • The Pacific ranges, standing transverse to the course of the prevailing westerlies near the Pacific Ocean, are of the greatest importance in this respect; it is largely by reason of the barrier that they form that the tempering effects of the Pacific winds are felt for so short a distance inland in winter, and that the heat centre is displaced in summer so far towards the western coast.

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