fever
IPA: fˈivɝ
noun
- A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
- (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
- A state of excitement or anxiety.
- (neologism) A group of stingrays.
verb
- To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
- To become fevered.
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Examples of "fever" in Sentences
- He was nauseated and fevered.
- There is a fetid fever swamp.
- The next day the fever was gone.
- He was seized with bilious fever.
- It's the creation of a fevered ego.
- The typical fever becomes quotidian.
- The audience became increasingly fevered.
- An underestimated reason is factitious fever.
- He was hospitalized with an undiagnosed fever.
- It causes the disease tularemia or rabbit fever.
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