fevered
IPA: fˈivɝd
adjective
- Affected by a fever; feverish.
- Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
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Examples of "fevered" in Sentences
- The rise of the viral right here has fostered the same kind of fevered imaginings.
- Is the film some kind of fevered dream taking place in Bill's sexually frustrated mind?
- I just can't remember any who've shown an "eye" or a shooting style that I would call fevered or amped-up and
- I will take steps to learn my way around Seattle better, so that I don't feel trapped indoors/stir crazy/cabin fevered.
- But we -- I mean, I think that they must leak a certain amount in order to build up that kind of fevered (ph) anticipation.
- Each new record is greeted with the kind of fevered hope and fear and anticipation unique to those cult bands who are truly adored: Will it be too populist?
- "Pathetic," he called the fevered satisfaction she took in the hovering attentions of our old black nurse, who gave us brief respites in the two sick-rooms by turns, and who had according to Mrs. Fontenette, "such a beautiful faith!"
- A more open market for college admissions, no matter how fevered, is still fairer than the old system, which petered out in the mid-1960s, whereby Exeter's headmaster could earmark a few dozen of each year's seniors for admission to Harvard.
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