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fevered

[ UK /fˈiːvəd/ ]
[ US /ˈfivɝd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. highly or nervously excited
    a fevered imagination

How To Use fevered In A Sentence

  • Knowing this neighbourhood as I do, I have sent out boy scouts armed with catapults and homing pigeons to locate and succour your undoubtedly acned messenger, who has, I suspect, been lured into a den serving potent drinks and fevered women who have taken his mind off his job and transferred it to his own gratification. Archive 2007-02-01
  • The rise of the viral right here has fostered the same kind of fevered imaginings. Mark Olmsted: The Evolution of Fascism -- Then and Now
  • Don Julián, wounded and enfevered, now at last believes the worst. The Theory of the Theatre
  • The last chukka saw both teams go all out and play some very fanciful and accurate polo, raising the excitement to a fevered pitch.
  • My friend Fiona and I were in a state of fevered excitement.
  • My childhood dream was to be mother, at home with my children, making pictures out of macaroni, passing on my favourite bedtime stories, helping with homework, soothing fevered brows and wiping away snot.
  • The pure and fine essential qualities of the voices, the dizzying harmonies, the fugal calls and responses, the strange relief of the unisons, and above all the free, natural mien of the singers, proudly aware that they were producing something beautiful that could not be produced more beautifully, conscious of unchallenged supremacy, -- all this enfevered him to an unprecedented and self-astonished enthusiasm. Clayhanger
  • By this, she means the seemingly endless publicity tour to promote the movie, and the fevered tabloid attention that came to dog her every move.
  • It's just a product of your fevered imagination!
  • Is the film some kind of fevered dream taking place in Bill's sexually frustrated mind? Films I Love #14: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
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