Synonyms of the word

moderate

• adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation.
• adj. Mediocre.
• adj. Average priced; standard-deal.
• adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
• adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
• n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become less excessive.
• v. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.

adult

• n. A fully grown human or animal.
• n. A person who has reached the legal age of majority, generally 18 years of age.
• adj. Fully grown.
• adj. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
• adj. Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; designating pornography.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

average

• n. (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
• n. Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
• n. Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
• n. (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
• n. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
• n. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
• n. (Britain, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal…
• adj. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
• adj. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
• adj. Typical.
• adj. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
• v. (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
• v. (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value…
• v. (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
• v. (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
• n. (Britain, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant,…

cautious

• adj. careful; using or exercising caution; tentative.

centrist

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or advocating centrism.
• n. A person who advocates centrism.

chair

• n. An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for…
• n. Chairperson.
• n. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
• n. (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers,…
• n. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly…
• n. (slang, with the) The electric chair.
• n. A distinguished professorship at a university.
• n. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse;…
• v. (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
• v. (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
• v. (transitive, Wales, Britain) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

chasten

• v. To punish (in order to bring about improvement in behavior, attitude, etc.); to restrain, moderate.
• v. To make chaste; to purify.
• v. To punish or reprimand for the sake of improvement; to discipline.
• v. To render humble or restrained.

check

• n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• n. An inspection or examination.
• n. A control; a limit or stop.
• n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
• n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
• n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
• n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
• n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
• n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
• n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
• n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• n. A small chink or crack.
• v. To inspect; to examine.
• v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
• v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
• v. To control, limit, or halt.
• v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
• v. To leave in safekeeping.
• v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
• v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
• v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
• v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
• v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
• v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
• v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
• v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
• v. To act as a curb or restraint.
• v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

conservative

• n. A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
• n. (US, economics) A fiscal conservative.
• n. (US, politics) A political conservative.
• n. (US, social sciences) A social conservative.
• adj. Cautious.
• adj. Tending to resist change or innovation.
• adj. Based on pessimistic assumptions.
• adj. (US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social…
• adj. (Britain, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
• adj. (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
• adj. Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
• adj. (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
• adj. (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish,…

contain

• v. (transitive) To hold inside.
• v. (transitive) To include as a part.
• v. (transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
• v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

decelerate

• v. to reduce the velocity of something.
• v. to reduce the rate of advancement of something, such as a disease.
• v. (intransitive) to go slower.

discuss

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
• v. (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To break to pieces; to shatter.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, in eating or drinking.
• v. (transitive, law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal…

fair

• adj. (literary or archaic) Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
• adj. Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
• adj. Light in color, pale, particularly as regards skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
• adj. Just, equitable.
• adj. Adequate, reasonable, or decent.
• adj. (nautical, of a wind) Favorable to a ship's course.
• adj. Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.
• adj. Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage,…
• adj. (shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of…
• adj. (baseball) Between the baselines.
• n. Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
• n. (obsolete) A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
• n. (obsolete) Fairness, beauty.
• n. A fair woman; a sweetheart.
• n. (obsolete) Good fortune; good luck.
• v. To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
• v. To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
• v. To construct or design a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline or reduce air…
• v. (obsolete) To make fair or beautiful.
• adv. clearly, openly, frankly, civilly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, agreeably.
• n. A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
• n. An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
• n. An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
• n. A funfair, an amusement park.

fairish

• adj. Of moderate size, quality etc.
• adj. (of hair) Somewhat fair.

grownup

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults.
• adj. Adult; fully developed; mature.
• n. An adult. (used especially by children).

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

indifferent

• adj. Not caring or concerned; uninterested, apathetic.
• adj. Mediocre, usually used negatively in modern usage.
• adj. Having no preference or bias, being impartial.
• adj. Not making a difference; without significance or importance.
• adj. (mechanics) Being in the state of neutral equilibrium.
• adv. (obsolete) To some extent, in some degree (intermediate between very and not at all); moderately, tolerably,…

intermediate

• adj. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
• n. Anything in an intermediate position.
• n. An intermediary.
• n. (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
• v. (intransitive) to mediate, to be an intermediate.
• v. (transitive) to arrange, in the manner of a broker.

keep

• v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
• v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
• v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
• v. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
• v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
• v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
• n. (obsolete) Care, notice.
• n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to, the…
• n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
• n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
• n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
• n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
• n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

lead

• n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
• n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
• n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
• n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
• n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
• n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
• n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
• n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
• v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
• v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
• v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
• v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
• v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
• v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
• v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
• v. To produce (with to).
• v. Misspelling of led.
• n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
• n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
• n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
• n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
• n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
• n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
• n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
• n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
• n. (countable, mining) A lode.
• n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
• n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
• n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
• n. Charging lead.
• n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
• n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
• n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
• n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
• n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
• n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
• n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
• n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
• n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
• n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
• n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
• n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
• n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
• n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
• n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
• n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
• adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
• adj. (music) main, principal.
• v. Misspelling of led.

limited

• v. simple past tense and past participle of limit.
• adj. With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
• adj. Of numbers, amounts, data: poor, small, felt to be insufficient.
• n. (railroad) A train that only halts at a limited number of stops.

medium

• n. (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum,…
• n. (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
• n. (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information.
• n. (plural media or mediums, engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing…
• n. (plural media or mediums, microbiology) A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
• n. (plural media or mediums) The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
• n. (plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
• n. (plural mediums or media, painting) A tool used for painting or drawing.
• n. (plural mediums, spiritualism) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
• n. (plural mediums) Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
• n. (plural mediums) A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
• n. (plural mediums, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
• n. A middle place or degree.
• n. (dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
• n. (logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
• adj. (obsolete) Arithmetically average.
• adj. Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
• adj. Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still…
• adv. to a medium extent.

middle-of-the-road

• adj. Alternative spelling of middle of the road.

mild

• adj. Gentle and not easily angered.
• adj. (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict.
• adj. Not overly felt or seriously intended.
• adj. (of an illness or pain) Not serious or dangerous.
• adj. (of weather) Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected.
• adj. (of a medicine or cosmetic) Acting gently and without causing harm.
• adj. (of food, drink, or a drug) Not sharp, or strong in flavor.
• n. (Britain) A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale.

mince

• n. (uncountable) Finely chopped meat.
• n. (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
• n. (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
• n. (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
• n. (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly plural) An eye (from mince pie).
• v. (transitive) To make less; make small.
• v. (transitive) To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.
• v. (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.
• v. (transitive) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead…
• v. (transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
• v. (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
• v. (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
• v. (archaic) To diminish the force of.

minimalist

• adj. Believing in or seeking a minimal state; seeking to minimize or reduce to a minimum.
• n. One who believes in or seeks a minimal state; one who seeks to minimize or reduce to a minimum.

modest

• adj. Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble.
• adj. Small, moderate in size.
• adj. (especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

reasonable

• adj. Having the faculty of reason; imbued with reason; rational.
• adj. Just; fair; agreeable to reason.
• adj. Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper.
• adj. Not expensive; fairly priced.
• adj. Satisfactory.

restrain

• v. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
• v. (transitive) To restrict or limit.

restrained

• adj. Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of restrain.

small

• adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
• adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
• adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
• adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
• adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
• adv. In a small fashion.
• adv. In or into small pieces.
• adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
• n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
• v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

soften

• v. (transitive) To make something soft or softer.
• v. (transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
• v. (transitive) To make less harsh.
• v. (intransitive) To become soft or softer.

suppress

• v. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
• v. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
• v. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
• v. To prevent publication.
• v. To stop a flow or stream.
• v. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
• v. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
• v. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.

tame

• adj. Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
• adj. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
• adj. Not exciting.
• adj. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
• adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
• v. (transitive) to make something tame.
• v. (intransitive) to become tame.
• v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute;…

temper

• n. A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.
• n. State of mind.
• n. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture…
• n. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler,…
• n. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone…
• n. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
• n. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating…
• n. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
• n. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used…
• v. To moderate or control.
• v. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
• v. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
• v. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
• v. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
• v. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
• v. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element;…
• v. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

temperate

• adj. Moderate; not excessive.
• adj. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions.
• adj. Proceeding from temperance.
• adj. Living in an environment that is temperate, not extreme.
• v. (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.