fever 
fe·ver (fē′vər)
noun
- a body temperature that is higher than normal, caused by an infection, ovulation, vigorous exercise, etc.; pyrexia
- any of various diseases characterized by a high fever yellow fever
- a condition of nervousness or restless excitement
Etymology: ME < OE fefer & OFr fievre, both < L febris < IE base *dhegwh-, to burn > L fovere, to warm, MIr daig, fire
transitive verb
to cause fever in
fever
n.
Converse of object
- relapse: Tick-borne relapsing fever in west USA and west Canada.
- swamp: He was actively involved in the running of the colony but died of swamp fever later the same year.
- rage: Next morning the poor man was smitten with a raging fever.
Adjective modifier
- glandular: The hospital laboratory can diagnose glandular fever by testing a blood sample from a patient.
- typhoid: The Prince is believed to have died of typhoid fever.
- scarlet: A young boy of six, I was recovering from scarlet fever.
- rheumatic: He died suddenly of rheumatic fever at the age of 45.
- haemorrhagic: Dengue fever NEW March 2003 Covers the effects of supportive treatments for dengue haemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome in children.
- enteric: Disease accounted for 127 men of the 1st Battalion, with a predominant cause being enteric fever ( typhoid ).
Modifies a noun
- vaccination: You must also have evidence of a yellow fever vaccination.
- sufferer: Pollen counts are taken during the summer months to warn hay fever sufferers of high levels.
- pitch: The poll tax raised awareness of local taxation to fever pitch for a few years.
- grip: MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Sudoku fever grips UK newspaper readers Guardian Unlimited Web.
- epidemic: Later in 1878, a yellow fever epidemic in the south enabled homeopaths to cure many more.
Noun used with modifier
- hay: The hay fever season is a common time for asthma to get worse.
- dengue: Health experts have known about dengue fever for more than 200 years.
- swine: What should you do if you suspect swine fever?
- typhus: The workhouse was greatly overcrowded, food was short, sanitation was poor, and diseases such as typhus fever and dysentery were widespread.
- Lassa: Freddie de Young ( Lazar Rodic ) A very taxing role - the corpse of the lassa fever contact ( 393 ).
- low-grade: No fever, or only low-grade fever may be present.
The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, And famine grew, and locusts came; Great is the hand that holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name.
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
Thank Heaven! the crisisö The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at lastö And the fever called 'Living' Is conquered at last.
Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree. Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills, The delight of her husband, her aunts, an infant of three, And of medicos marvelling sweetly on her ills.
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
Browse dictionary entries near fever
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- ‹ feuilletonist
- ‹ feuilleton
- ‹ feudist
- ‹ feudatory
- ‹ feudalize
- ‹ feudality
- ‹ feudalism
- ‹ feudal system
- ‹ feudal
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