Clues for the word "DISTEMPER"
We've had 20 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 21 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 13, 2025.
Definition of distemper
- v. t. - To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- v. t. - To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- v. t. - To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.
- v. t. - To intoxicate.
- v. t. - To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.
- v. t. - An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.
- v. t. - Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
- v. t. - Political disorder; tumult.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - A painting done with this preparation.
Referring Clues
- Paint - disease of animals
- Coat may be problem for 18
- Disease of animals, especially dogs
- Fido's upset the paint!
- Disease for a watery finish
- Girl's mood conveyed in paint
- Colourful stuff giving rise to complaint
- Canine ailment - whitewash
- Doctor lives to alleviate disease
- Illness affecting Pluto's mood
- Coat may be problem for dog
- Disease, which could bring about a change of colour
- Disease of dogs
- Viral disease initially darkened one's mood
- Diane's pet gets a viral disease
- One's mood following onset of deadly viral illness
- New set primed for paint
- Disease is given little time in pre-med, unfortunately
- Water-based paint
- Whitewash
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 07, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 26, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 26, 2018
- Guardian Cryptic - November 10, 2015
- Guardian Everyman - July 26, 2015
- Guardian Quick - February 10, 2014
- Guardian Everyman - March 10, 2013
- Guardian Speedy - April 01, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - February 03, 2012
- Guardian Quick - November 26, 2011
- Guardian Prize - May 07, 2011
- Guardian Everyman - December 05, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - December 04, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - March 06, 2008
- Guardian Everyman - April 29, 2007
- Guardian Quick - March 26, 2007
- Guardian Cryptic - January 06, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - March 22, 2002
- Guardian Cryptic - October 08, 2001
- Guardian Cryptic - December 07, 2000