1. fever - Noun
2. fever - Verb
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 dictionaryThe 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