Synonym: character, condition, constitution, disposition, mood, nature, tendency. Antonym: intensify. Similar words: tempera, tempest, temperature, intemperate, tempestuous, temperamental, tempt, temple. Meaning: ['tempə(r)] 
n. 1. a sudden outburst of anger 2. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling 3. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger 4. the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking. v. 1. toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling 2. harden by reheating and cooling in oil 3. adjust the pitch (of pianos) 4. make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate 5. restrain or temper.
n. 1. a sudden outburst of anger 2. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling 3. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger 4. the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking. v. 1. toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling 2. harden by reheating and cooling in oil 3. adjust the pitch (of pianos) 4. make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate 5. restrain or temper. 
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271. Rich had conquered his own temper enough to take and not to spoil this rare second shot at school.
272. Quite sparky, she copes well under pressure, but it is not unknown for her to lose her temper.
273. In fact, I sometimes wondered how I controlled my temper when I was in his presence.
274. A citizen assigned to jury duty is jailed for throwing a temper tantrum before a judge.
275. He curbed his temper.
276. It is difficult to remain calm and objective when one's own child is distressed, even if only through bad temper.
277. This had annoyed Jonquil and set her steel earring swinging with temper.
278. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. Robert Frost 
279. Sharpe translated the crowd's attention as the derision due to a cuckold and, in that misapprehension, his temper snapped.
280. That concern may temper any gains in exporters, rising with the dollar.
281. Suddenly the cacique's son, who had watched the scene in dismayed silence, lost his temper.
282. This is how I put it: Andrew has not yet learned to control his temper.
283. The defence counsel said the defendant had admitted losing his temper on finding out that the girl was under age.
284. It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design. Edmund Burke
285. He will have a fiery temper, a bad disciplinary record and a passionate spirit.
286. When an airplane banged against a window I lost my temper.
287. If you can't control your temper you'd better go down to the canteen and help yourself to a drink.
287. Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
288. In fact, a couple of weeks ago he confided to me that he rather enjoyed losing his temper.
289. Too bad a promising young fellow should have dangerous opinions and a bad temper.
290. She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own.
291. In a final burst of bad temper, Mr Fang said that his time had been wasted.
292. Hayden helped provoke the late Richard J.. Daley into a temper tantrum that turned the 1968 convention into a street brawl.
293. However, the need to temper remotely-acquired information with sound agronomy was highlighted.
294. The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. Joseph Joubert
295. The days of numbing despair had been reduced to quick flashes of temper that Duvall always managed to calm.
296. A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. Joseph Addison
297. Jane departed in floods of tears and Rosemary duly arrived, in a very bad temper.
298. If you can't control your temper, you don't belong in this line of work.
299. In the last eight months of the marriage, he couldn't control his temper.
300. Rather, their thinking denotes a permanent shift in both the emotional and intellectual temper of the age.
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