To modify (some unsuitable or excessive state or quality, or some thing or person in respect of such), esp. by admixture of some other quality…

figurative. To make less violent, eager, or ardent; to assuage, mitigate, lessen. Obsolete.

To make less vehement, violent, or intense; to diminish the force or fury of. Obsolete.

transitive. To lessen or reduce in force or intensity; to moderate. Formerly also in passive (with unexpressed agent): †to be reduced in force or…

transitive (causatively). To lower in condition; to reduce in degree. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To appease, mitigate, pacify, relieve, reduce, abate. storm, wind, heat, or other physical force. Also in figurative context (cf. a(a)).

transitive. To alter in the direction of mildness or moderation; to make less severe, rigorous, or extreme; to qualify, tone down, moderate (a…

transitive. To reduce, lessen in force or intensity, diminish (a condition, quality, feeling, activity, etc.); to cause to abate. Obsolete.

transitive. To lessen in force or intensity; to mitigate, moderate, assuage, diminish. Now chiefly in to bate one's breath: to restrain one's…

transitive. = moderate, v. (in various senses); to restrain, hold in check; to temper, mitigate; to regulate, settle; to modify.

transitive. To relax, moderate, mitigate. Obsolete.

transitive. To lessen, abate, mitigate. Cf. remit, v. 6c.

transitive. To make less violent, severe, intense, or burdensome; to make moderate. Formerly also: †to reduce the amount of (a fine, charge…

transitive. To alleviate, moderate.

transitive. To alleviate or relieve (pain, symptoms, etc.); to appease or subdue (a strong emotion); to appease or satisfy (the appetite); to…

To quell (anger, pride, etc.). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To make sweet or pleasant; esp. to soften, soothe; to mollify.

To reduce the severity of. transitive. To temper or abate the violence of (an emotion); to lessen the harshness or intensity of (heat, cold…

transitive. To moderate or settle by intercession. rare.

To make or become less intense. transitive. To lessen; to slacken, abate (speed, force, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To moderate or mitigate so as to reduce to a more satisfactory or normal condition, esp. to render less violent, severe, or unpleasant…

transitive. To mix suitably; to moderate, qualify, mitigate, allay; = temper, v. 1 2; to bring into a proper state or condition; = temper, v. 5.

To calm, allay.

To reduce the force or strength of; to make less active, vigorous, or violent.

transitive. To make relaxed. Also intransitive: to cause relaxation (rare). Obsolete.

transitive. To make mild or milder.

transitive. To moderate or reduce in strength (heat, cold, light, etc.), esp. so as to make more bearable; to temper the severity of (a climate).

transitive. To make less strict or severe; to mitigate, tone down; to make less forceful. Also intransitive.

transitive. To render mild or gentle; to soften.

transitive. To reduce in force, intensity, or severity; to dim, weaken; to moderate.

transitive. To temper, moderate, or subdue; to allay.

transferred. To chasten or subdue (in intensity).

transitive. To reduce the force, harshness, or violence of (something); to assuage, mollify, tone down (a passion, etc.).

transitive. To make tender (in various senses). To make less stringent or strict; to mitigate. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To pacify; to alleviate, mitigate, soften.

transitive. To make meek; to humble, soften, tame; †to mitigate, calm, soothe (obsolete); to lessen the violence of; to bring low, abase.

transitive. To mitigate.

transitive. To mollify; to lessen the harshness or intensity of.

To moderate, make less intense.

To restrain from passion or excess; to moderate, temper, subdue; = chasten, v.1 4. archaic.

transitive. figurative and in extended use. To sweeten in temper; to make more agreeable or pleasant; to soften, mollify, appease.

transitive. To damp (vibration, sound, etc.); to reduce the effect or intensity of (an impact or physical shock).

= demulce, v.

figurative. To restrain from excess or intensity; to moderate, temper, subdue. (Cf. chaste, adj. 7.)

transitive. To exert a modifying or controlling influence on; to regulate. (Chiefly in technical contexts.)

transitive. To moderate, mitigate; to lessen, reduce.