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UK
/fˈiːvəɹɪʃli/
]
[ US /ˈfɛvɝˌɪʃɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈfɛvɝˌɪʃɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a feverish manner
she worked feverishly
How To Use feverishly In A Sentence
- She was devouring it, feverishly flipping pages and then writing things in the margins with a biro or highlighting sentences or whole paragraphs with a yellow highlighter pen.
- Technicians are feverishly rejigging the machine en route.
- Working feverishly, the crew and shore team refitted the boat and sailed it to La Rochelle in time to rejoin the race in leg eight.
- On an iffier note, Jorgensen over-exaggerates the eccentric mannerisms of Moody, who's seen curling up childishly on his office couch in a fit of nerves one minute and working the phone feverishly the next: A slight staginess clings to this neurotic figure. 'Golden Boy's' soft touch lands hard knocks
- Both the other candidates have been feverishly trying to assess what damage he has caused them.
- Working feverishly, the crew and shore team refitted the boat and sailed it to La Rochelle in time to rejoin the race in leg eight.
- The dancers hurtled feverishly in a circle, then pressed outward into two parallel lines, trisecting the original diagonal pathway.
- SpongeBob and Patrick themselves are feverishly suggestible — no gimmick or promotion targeted at them can possibly miss. SpongeBob's Golden Dream
- His large gray eyes were mainly responsible for this feeling, and they blazed out feverishly from what was almost a death's-head, so thin was the face, the skin of which was a ghastly, dull, dead white. Chapter II
- In Britain, a sudoku book is a bestseller and national newspapers are competing feverishly to publish the most, and the most fiendish, puzzles.