fever of excitement
1fever pitch — noun a state of extreme excitement the crowd was at fever pitch • Hypernyms: ↑excitement, ↑excitation, ↑inflammation, ↑fervor, ↑fervour * * * noun : a state of extreme excitement or activity [singular] I worked mys …
2fever — Synonyms and related words: abscess, agitation, ague, amok, anemia, animal heat, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attack, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, blood heat, bluster, bobbery, body heat, boil, boiling,… …
3fever — noun 1 (C, U) an illness or a medical condition in which you have a very high temperature: He s in bed with a fever. | Take some aspirin it ll help the fever to go down. see also: hay fever, scarlet fever, yellow fever 2 (singular) a situation in …
4fever — feverless, adj. /fee veuhr/, n. 1. an abnormal condition of the body, characterized by undue rise in temperature, quickening of the pulse, and disturbance of various body functions. 2. an abnormally high body temperature. 3. the number of degrees …
5fever — fe|ver [ˈfi:və US ər] n [Date: 900 1000; : Latin; Origin: febris] 1.) [U and C] an illness or a medical condition in which you have a very high temperature ▪ Andy has a fever and won t be coming into work today. ▪ I woke up this morning with a… …
6fever — n. & v. n. 1 a an abnormally high body temperature, often with delirium etc. b a disease characterized by this (scarlet fever; typhoid fever). 2 nervous excitement; agitation. v.tr. (esp. as fevered adj.) affect with fever or excitement. Phrases… …
7fever — [[t]fi͟ːvə(r)[/t]] fevers 1) N VAR If you have a fever when you are ill, your body temperature is higher than usual and your heart beats faster. → See also , rheumatic fever, scarlet fever My Uncle Jim had a high fever... Symptoms of the disease… …
8fever */ — UK [ˈfiːvə(r)] / US [ˈfɪvər] noun Word forms fever : singular fever plural fevers 1) [countable/uncountable] a medical condition in which the temperature of your body is very high and you feel ill Use paracetamol syrup to reduce fever in infants …
9fever — fe|ver [ fivər ] noun * 1. ) count or uncount a medical condition in which the temperature of your body is very high and you feel sick: TEMPERATURE: What do you use to reduce fever in infants? have a fever: Tom had a high fever all week. 2. )… …
10fever — noun 1) he developed a fever Syn: feverishness, high temperature, febrility; Medicine pyrexia; informal temperature 2) a fever of excitement Syn: ferment, frenzy, furor; ecstasy, rapture 3) Stanley Cup fever …
