- USA Today Crossword
- January 23 2024
- ___ tantrum
___ tantrum
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Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | 99% | TEMPER | ___ tantrum | USA Today |
20% | HISSY | __ fit: tantrum | LA Times |
20% | USE | ___ your words! (encouragement to a toddler having a tantrum) | |
20% | RAGED | Threw a tantrum | LA Times |
20% | BRATS | Throwers of temper tantrums | Wall Street Journal |
Definition
• | To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm. |
• | To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate. |
• | To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. |
• | To govern; to manage. |
• | To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc. |
• | To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use. |
• | The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar. |
• | Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. |
• | Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper. |
• | Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper. |
• | Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense. |
• | The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel. |
• | Middle state or course; mean; medium. |
• | Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar. |
• | To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity. |
• | To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable. |
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