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distemper

distemper is a 9-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 18 senses

Definitions

  1. transitive verb. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
  2. transitive verb. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
  3. transitive verb. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.
  4. transitive verb. To intoxicate.
  5. transitive verb. To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.
  6. transitive verb. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.
  7. transitive verb. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.
  8. transitive verb. A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.
  9. transitive verb. Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
  10. transitive verb. Political disorder; tumult.
  11. transitive verb. A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.
  12. transitive verb. A painting done with this preparation.
  13. noun. a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
  14. noun. a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
  15. noun. paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
  16. noun. an angry and disagreeable mood
  17. noun. any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
  18. verb. paint with distemper

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in distemper:

imprested

Common word forms

distempers, distempered, distemperer, distempering, distemperment

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