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distempernoun an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioningcontracted some tropical distemper while he was doing research in the jungles of Borneo affection, ail, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemperature, fever, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness, trouble contagion, contagious diseasecontagium, infectionattack, bout, fit, spelldebility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, weaknessmalaise, matter, pipepidemic, pest, pestilence, plague health, wellness fitness, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, soundness, wholeness, wholesomenessfettle, shape distemperverbto trouble the mind of; to make uneasydespite his career success, he has been distempered by nagging feelings of inadequacy his whole life agitate, ail, alarm(also alarum), bother, concern, derail, discomfort, discompose, dismay, disquiet, distract, distress, disturb, exercise, flurry, frazzle, freak (out), fuss, hagride, perturb, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, weird out, worry aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, chafe, chivy(or chivvy), exasperate, fret, gall, get, grate, harass, harry, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, pester, pique, put off, put out, rile, vexbedevil, haunt, plagueabash, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, jar, mortify, nonplus, rattle, shake updaunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, unnerve calm, compose, quiet, settle, soothe, tranquilize(also tranquillize) allay, alleviate, assuageappease, conciliate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate in the 14th century |