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UK
/fˈiːvɐ/
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[ US /ˈfivɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈfivɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
-
intense nervous anticipation
in a fever of resentment
How To Use fever In A Sentence
- There are drifts of feverfew, clouds of philadelphus, grasses whispering in the breeze, and everywhere the perfume of 1,000 blossoms keeping the countryside alive in the heart of London.
- The worst of the attack is over but I'm still spending a great deal of time sleeping and, although the fever's gone, the mysterious joint and muscular aches remain.
- Another daughter, Elizabeth, died of fever at age two in 1764 and was buried in the Negro cemetery alongside Nina.
- Seizures are most likely to occur early in an illness (such as roseola, colds, gastrointestinal infection) when the fever is rising quickly.
- She denied hemoptysis, fever, trauma, or history of blood clots in her or her family.
- _ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- Tick-borne diseases in the United States include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, babesiosis, Colorado tick fever, and relapsing fever.
- Because I had never had a cold sore before, the virus clobbered me with a very high fever.
- Scarlet fever is highly contagious.
- Only 30 years old, he died of yellow fever, transmitted by a mosquito's bite.