Word Finder - fever

definition

A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

example

"I have a fever. I think I've the flu."

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(usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.

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A state of excitement or anxiety.

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A group of stingrays.

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To put into a fever; to affect with fever.

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a fevered lip

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To become fevered.

She'd felt it last night, too, before … before the fever dream about them having sex.

The strange fever remained, making her feel as if she'd been sitting in a sauna for hours.

Her fever goes down, but then comes back up again.

Then fever set in, but the doctor had said the fever was not very serious.

If he could shake his fever and take care of himself, he'd be okay alone.

I must have a fever.

Her lips were red and her features flushed from the fever.

The climate is healthy in the uplands, though subject to violent changes; in the valleys fever is very prevalent, especially in the basins of the Boyana, the lower Drin and the Simen.

Most of the charitable institutions - for instance, the convalescent home, fever hospital, home for girls and Red House home - are situated at Inveresk, about 12 m.

In fever the case is different.

On landing (October 2) at Cape Coast, Wolseley found the Ashanti, who had been decimated by smallpox and fever, preparing to return home.

Besides coloured troops, there were employed in this campaign about 2400 Europeans, who suffered severely from fever and otherwise, though the mortality among the men was slight.

In 1935, a vaccine for yellow fever was created.

I've got a black and blue mark on my ribs from his version of Saturday night fever.

The fever had left him, and while he looked pale beneath his cocoa skin, he was alert and his speech coherent.

Louis, who was sick with fever, withdrew to his ancestral home, Dillenburg, to recruit his health, and then once more to devote his energies to the raising of money and troops for another invasion of the Netherlands.

Jule's shaking had stopped, and he looked pale rather than flushed from a fever.

The thought came from nowhere, and Jule thought again of the vamp from his fever dream.

She was fighting a fever, one that made it hard for her to focus.

He wondered if she had a fever.

If your fever stays down, I'll let you go home tomorrow.

It is noticed that labourers employed in deep mines worked by shafts suffer less from fever than do those who are engaged in stripping the alluvial deposits.

Shortly afterwards he fell ill of an intermittent fever, but seemed to recover.

The absence or extreme paucity of mosquitoes no doubt accounts for the infrequency of malarial fever in the interior.

On his return in 1847, he exchanged the naval for the military service, and was sent to join the U.S. army in Mexico, where he had some extraordinary adventures, and where he was again stricken with fever.

In connexion with the university is a botanical garden; with the national sanitary service, a biological laboratory, and special services for small-pox, glanders and yellow fever.

Louis, by his researches on pulmonary consumption and typhoid fever, had the chief merit of refuting the doctrines of Broussais.

Fever is unknown.

Innocentius died of a fever, and Jerome was dangerously ill.

Mangrove swamps surround the town and epidemics of cholera, yellow fever and other tropical diseases have been frequent; but the unhealthiness of the climate is mitigated to some extent by the high tides which cover the marshes, and the invigorating breezes which blow in from the sea.

In order to justify his newly-won laurels, Luynes undertook an expedition against the Protestants, but died of a fever in the midst of the campaign, at Longueville in Guienne, on the 15th of December 1621.

But the fever grew and flamed in my eyes, and for several days my kind physician thought I would die.

In Smolensk, at the Malakhov Gate, he had hardly dozed off in a paroxysm of fever before he was awakened by the bombardment of the town--and Smolensk held out all day long.

Darian's golden eyes pulsed and swirled with battle fever.

In 1872 he was promoted commander at what was an exceptionally early age, but he died on the 17th of December 1874 of brain fever.

His health had broken down, and he visited the West Indies, where his wife died of yellow fever.

In 1855 it suffered severely from yellow fever.

They are poverty-stricken, and easily fall victim to fever.

He was gathering troops for a new expedition in central Italy in the summer, when both he and his father were simultaneously seized with fever.

He started in July, crossed the Muchenja Mountains, and reached the capital of the Cazembe, where he died of fever.

After five months' voyage the ship reached Mozambique, where the captain resolved to winter, and Xavier was prostrated with a severe attack of fever.

If the first paroxysm should not cease within the twenty-four hours, the fever is not reckoned as an intermittent, but as a remittent.

Milder cases of malarial fever are apt to become dangerous from the complications of dysentery, bronchitis or pneumonia.

Of the mortality due to malarial disease a small part only is referable to the direct attack of intermittent, and chiefly to the fever in its pernicious form.

That Diptera of the type of the common house-fly are often in large measure responsible for the spread of such diseases as cholera and enteric fever is undeniable, and as regards blood-sucking forms, in addition to those to which reference has already been made, it is sufficient to mention the vast army of pests constituted by the midges, sand-flies, horseflies, &c., from the attacks of which domestic animals suffer equally with man, in addition to being frequently infested with the larvae of the bot and warble flies (Gastrophilus, Oestrus and Hypoderma).

Yellow fever epidemics are common on the Campeche coast, and sometimes appear at Progreso and Merida.

The day after his son's funeral Taylor caught fever from a patient whom he visited, and, after a ten days' illness, he died at Lisburn on the 13th of August 1667, in the fifty-fifth year of his life and the seventh of his episcopate, and was buried in the cathedral of Dromore.

The prevailing diseases are cholera, fever, small-pox, ophthalmia, dysentery and those of the skin among the lower classes.

The exhibition of pigs at agricultural shows has to be abandoned, in consequence of swine fever regulations.

In that year he was ordered to the west coast of Africa, where he visited Dahomey, and contracted fever, which told severely on his constitution.