fever

  • 31fever — 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 …

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  • 32fever — /ˈfivə / (say feevuh) noun 1. a morbid condition of the body characterised by undue rise of temperature, quickening of the pulse, and disturbance of various bodily functions. 2. any of a group of diseases in which high temperature is a prominent… …

  • 33fever — noun /ˈfiːvə,ˈfiːvɚ/ a) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease. I have a fever. I think Ive caught a cold. b) Any of various diseases …

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  • 34fever — [OE] The underlying meaning of fever, ‘high temperature’, suggests that it goes back ultimately to Indo European *dhegh , *dhogh ‘burn’ (which also produced English day, favour, and forment). Descended from it was Latin febris ‘fever’, which… …

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  • 35fever — noun 1) he developed fever Syn: feverishness, high temperature; Medicine pyrexia; informal temperature 2) World Cup fever Syn: excitement, mania, frenzy, agitation, passion …

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  • 36fever — [OE] The underlying meaning of fever, ‘high temperature’, suggests that it goes back ultimately to Indo European *dhegh , *dhogh ‘burn’ (which also produced English day, favour, and forment). Descended from it was Latin febris ‘fever’, which… …

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  • 37Fever —    (Deut. 28:22; Matt. 8:14; Mark 1:30; John 4:52; Acts 28:8), a burning heat, as the word so rendered denotes, which attends all febrile attacks. In all Eastern countries such diseases are very common. Peter s wife s mother is said to have… …

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  • 38Fever — This is an Olde French occupational name deriving from the Olde French fevere or fevre meaning a smith . In England, the name is first recorded in the early half of the 13th century. One Abraham le Fevre appears in the 1248 Fine Court Rolls of… …

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  • 39fever — fe·ver || fɪːvÉ™(r) n. high body temperature; disease characterized by high body temperature; tension, excitement v. cause to develop a fever; excite, cause tension …

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  • 40fever — 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.     ↘general excitement about a public event: election fever. Derivatives… …

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