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"ref": "1950, Nevil Shute, chapter 3, in A Town Like Alice, London: Heinemann, published 1952, page 94",
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"text": "to have a hasty temper",
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"text": "He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.",
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"ref": "1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 3, in Anne of Avonlea",
"text": "“I guess you’ve got a spice of temper,” commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him.",
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"ref": "1958, Graham Greene, chapter 5, in Our Man in Havana, Penguin, published 1969",
"text": "‘What a temper you’ve got, Wormold.’\n‘I’m sorry. Drink takes me that way.’",
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"ref": "2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 28, in The Childhood of Jesus, London: Harvill Secker, page 251",
"text": "His criticism of Inés makes him bristle. Nonetheless, he holds his temper in check.",
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"text": "an outburst of temper",
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"ref": "1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 28, in Bertram Cope’s Year",
"text": "Hortense remained for several days in a condition of sullen anger—she was a cloud lit up by occasional unaccountable flashes of temper.",
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{
"ref": "1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Silver Chair, London: Geoffrey Bles, published 1965",
"text": "Jill suddenly flew into a temper (which is quite a likely thing to happen if you have been interrupted in a cry).",
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"ref": "1999, Colm Tóibín, chapter 4, in The Blackwater Lightship, New York: Scribner, page 110",
"text": "[…] she banged the door as she left as though in temper and walked to her car.",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "cmn",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "de",
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huǎnhé",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "缓和"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "matigen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "moderigi"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "mildigi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "hillitä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "hallita"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "regular"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "mäßigen"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "whakamauru"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "metegian"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "moderar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "regular"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "controlar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "tempera"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "modera"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "regula"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "astâmpăra"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "umerjátʹ",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "умеря́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uméritʹ",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уме́рить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "templar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "atemperar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "mildra"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "dämpa"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otgrjavam",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "отгрявам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zakaljavam",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "закалявам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huíhuǒ",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "回火"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "淬硬"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "hardi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "päästää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "karkaista"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "recuire"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "niragu",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "淬ぐ, 焠ぐ"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "whakapūioio"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "tākakā"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "reveni"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "căli"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zakaljátʹ",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "закаля́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zakalítʹ",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "закали́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "prekaliti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "templar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "glödga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "aducera"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "subuhan"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "tôi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "luyện"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "tôi luyện"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to sauté spices",
"word": "freesata"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to mix with water to obtain proper consistency",
"word": "揉和"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to mix with water to obtain proper consistency",
"word": "sekoittaa"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to mix with water to obtain proper consistency",
"word": "amesteca"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "moduliram",
"sense": "music: to adjust a scale",
"word": "модулирам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "music: to adjust a scale",
"word": "temperoida"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"temper"
],
"word": "temper"
}
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