distempered
8.2
Sick with a disease that spreads and mainly affects dogs
- adjective
- /dɪsˈtɛmpərd/
- Specialized
:
infectado
- The veterinarian confirmed that the puppy was distempered after showing symptoms of the illness.
Examples
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They took in a distempered dog from the shelter to help nurse it back to health.
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After weeks of treatment, the once distempered pet finally started to regain its energy.
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itself like a distempered animal.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
infected
vsdistempered
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3.3
Having germs like bacteria or viruses that make the body sick
refers to infection by one specific contagious viral disease mainly in dogs
How Sick
Surface Forms
distempered positive
Morphology
Etymology
Distempered comes from the parts dis- 'not' and temper 'mix' or 'mood'. It originally meant 'out of balance', so it was used for animals in a bad, contagious state, which is why the sickness is called distemper.