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tempering
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adjective
moderating by making more temperate
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noun
(= annealing)
hardening something by heat treatment
treatment
Noun
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A treatment is an action, usually by a doctor, to make somebody healthy.
He has had treatments every day since he hurt his neck.
My sister is undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
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The treatment that you give someone or something is the way that you act toward it.
The treatment that I have received since beginning this job has been terrible. My boss yells at me every day and nobody is friendly at all.