TEMPERED

• (adj.) adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element

  "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"

• (adj.) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

  "a sword of tempered steel", "tempered glass"

  synonyms : hardened , toughened , treated

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