fever

Speech parts

1. fever - Noun

2. fever - Verb

Meaning

A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.

Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever.

To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pyrexia febrility passion excitement temperature hyperthermia feverishness febricity high temperature fury state fire disease plague mania
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Antonyms

enlightenment cold description explanation illustration illumination
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Hypernyms

expectancy anticipation symptom

Hyponyms

hyperpyrexia buck fever gold fever

Phrases with the word

I have a fever California valley fever Ohara's fever Monday fever Japanese river fever West African hemorrhagic fever

Derivatives

fevered fevering

Anagrams

fevre

Examples

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. Georg Büchner

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. William Penn

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 bend by the same wintry fever. Dylan Thomas

At death's door a man will beg for the fever. Armenian Proverb

Feed a cold, starve a fever. American Proverb

Unprofitable is a fever of the world. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

feuterer feutre feV fever and ague fever and ague root fever and joint pain