fever

  • 11fever — ► NOUN 1) an abnormally high body temperature, usually accompanied by shivering, headache, and in severe instances, delirium. 2) a state of nervous excitement or agitation. DERIVATIVES feverish adjective feverishly adverb feverishness noun.… …

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  • 12fever — 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 …

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  • 13Fever — Although a fever technically is any body temperature above the normal of 98.6 degrees F. (37 degrees C.), in practice a person is usually not considered to have a significant fever until the temperature is above 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C.).… …

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  • 14fever — 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… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 15fever — 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,… …

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  • 16fever — noun 1 high temperature ADJECTIVE ▪ high, raging ▪ She had a very high fever. ▪ mild, slight ▪ persistent ▪ …

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  • 17fever — 01. My daughter is quite sick; she has a bad cough, a high [fever], and a runny nose. 02. She is somewhat [feverish] and pale looking. I think she should go home to bed. 03. Yuki worked [feverishly] from the minute classes ended until well past… …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 18fever — 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 …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19fever — n. elevated temperature of the body 1) to come down with, develop a fever 2) a constant; high; intermittent; mild, slight; recurrent; remittent fever 3) a fever breaks, subsides disease or condition 4) glandular; hay; relapsing; rheumatic; Rocky… …

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  • 20fever — [[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… …

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