FEVER

fever

(noun) intense nervous anticipation; “in a fever of resentment”

fever, febrility, febricity, pyrexia, feverishness

(noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

fever (countable and uncountable, plural fevers)

A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

(usually, in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.

A state of excitement or anxiety.

A group of stingrays.

Synonyms

• (higher than normal body temperature): high temperature, pyrexia (medical term), temperature

• (state of excitement): excitation, excitement, passion

Hyponyms

• abortus fever

• absorption fever

• acclimating fever

• Aden fever

• adynamic fever

• aestivoautumnal fever

• African Coast fever

• algid pernicious fever

• aphthous fever

• ardent fever

• arthropod-borne fever

• artificial fever

• aseptic fever

• Assam fever

• ataxic fever

• autumn fever

• barrel fever

• Bay fever

• beaver fever

• benign tertian fever

• biduoterian fever

• biliary fever

• bilious fever

• black fever

• black fly fever

• blackwater fever

• blue fever

• bouquet fever

• boutonneuse fever

• bovine epizootic fever

• brain fever

• brass founder's fever

• brassfounder's fever

• Brazilian purpuric fever

• breakbone fever

• buck fever

• Bullis fever

• bullous fever

• Bunyamwera fever

• Burdwan fever

• Bwamba fever

• cabin fever

• cachectic fever

• cachexial fever

• camp fever

• cane-cutter fever

• canefield fever

• cane-field fever

• canicola fever

• Cape Horn fever

• Carrión's fever

• Carter's fever

• cat fever

• catarrhal fever

• cat-bite fever

• catheter fever

• cat-scratch fever

• central fever

• cerebrospinal fever

• cerebro-spinal fever

• Chagres fever

• channel fever

• Charcot's fever

• chikungunya fever

• childbed fever

• childbirth fever

• Choix fever

• congestive fever

• Congo red fever

• Congolian red fever

• continued fever

• continuous fever

• cotton fever

• cotton-mill fever

• country fever

• Crimean fever

• Cyprus fever

• dance fever

• dandy fever

• date fever

• deer fly fever

• dehydration fever

• dengue fever

• desert fever

• diary fever

• digestive fever

• diphasic milk fever

• disfever

• dock fever

• double quotidian fever

• drug fever

• duck fever

• dumdum fever

• Dutch type periodic fever

• East Coast fever

• Ebola fever

• Ebola virus fever

• elephantoid fever

• Elokomin fluke fever

• English fever

• enteric fever

• entericoid fever

• entrance fever

• ephemeral fever

• epimastical fever

• eruptive fever

• essential fever

• estivoautumnal fever

• exanthematous fever

• exsiccation fever

• falciparum fever

• familial Hibernian fever

• familial periodic fever

• famine fever

• farrowing fever

• fatigue fever

• field fever

• five-day fever

• flood fever

• fog fever

• food fever

• Fort Bragg fever

• foundryman's fever

• Gambian fever

• gaol fever

• gastric fever

• Gibraltar fever

• glandular fever

• gold fever

• grain fever

• green fever

• haematuric bilious fever

• haemoglobinuric fever

• haemorrhagic fever

• Hankow fever

• harvest fever

• Hasami fever

• Haverhill fever

• hay fever

• hectic fever

• hematuric bilious fever

• hemoglobinuric fever

• hemorrhagic fever

• hempen fever

• hepatic intermittent fever

• herpetic fever

• horse sickness fever

• hospital fever

• humidifier fever

• Ilheus fever

• inanition fever

• induced fever

• inflammatory fever

• intermittent fever

• inundation fever

• island fever

• Jaccoud's dissociated fever

• jail fever

• Japanese flood fever

• Japanese river fever

• jungle fever

• jungle yellow fever

• Junin fever

• Katayama fever

• Kedani fever

• Kenya fever

• Kew Gardens fever

• Kinkiang fever

• Korin fever

• Lábrea fever

• Lábrea's black fever

• land fever

• Lassa fever

• laurel fever

• Lazaret fever

• lechuguilla fever

• Lombard fever

• Lone Star fever

• lung fever

• malarial fever

• malignant tertian fever

• Malta fever

• Manchurian fever

• Marseilles fever

• marsh fever

• Mediterranean coast fever

• Mediterranean erythematous fever

• Mediterranean exanthematous fever

• Mediterranean fever

• meningotyphoid fever

• metal fume fever

• Meuse fever

• Mexican fever

• Mianeh fever

• miliary fever

• milk fever

• mill fever

• Monday fever

• monoleptic fever

• Mossman fever

• mountain fever

• mud fever

• mumu fever

• Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever

• Murchison-Sanderson fever

• nanukayami fever

• Neapolitan fever

• nervous fever

• nine mile fever

• nodal fever

• o'nyong-nyong fever

• Oropouche fever

• Oroya fever

• paludal fever

• papataci fever

• papatasi fever

• pappataci fever

• papular fever

• paratyphoid fever

• parenteric fever

• parrot fever

• parturient fever

• Pel-Ebstein fever

• periodic fever

• petechial fever

• pharyngoconjunctival fever

• phlebotomus fever

• pinta fever

• pituitous fever

• polka fever

• polyleptic fever

• polymer fume fever

• Pomona fever

• Pontiac fever

• Potomac fever

• Potomac horse fever

• pretibial fever

• prison fever typhus

• prison fever

• protein fever

• puerperal fever

• puking fever

• purple fever

• putrid fever

• Pym fever

• Pym's fever

• pyogenic fever

• Q fever

• query fever

• rabbit fever

• ratbite fever

• rat-bite fever

• recrudescent typhus fever

• recurrent fever

• recurring fever

• red fever

• redwater fever

• relapsing fever

• remittent fever

• rheumatic fever

• Rhodesian fever

• rice-field fever

• Rock fever

• rock fever

• Roman fever

• rose fever

• Ross River fever

• rotanny fever

• run a fever

• sakushu fever

• Salinem fever

• salt fever

• sandfly fever

• sand-fly fever

• Santa Marta fever

• São Paulo fever

• scarlet fever

• Schamberg fever

• Schottmüller's fever

• secondary fever

• Sennetsu fever

• septic fever

• Shar Pei fever

• shin bone fever

• ship fever

• shipping fever

• shoddy fever

• Sindbis fever

• slime fever

• slow fever

• smelter's fever

• snail fever

• solar fever

• Songo fever

• spelter's fever

• spirillary fever

• spirillum fever

• splenic fever

• spotted fever

• spottled fever

• spring fever

• steroid fever

• sthenic fever

• stockyards fever

• stranger's fever

• streptobacillary fever

• summer fever

• sun fever

• suppurative fever

• surgical fever

• swamp fever

• swine fever

• symptomatic fever

• syphilitic fever

• Texas cattle fever

• Texas fever

• therapeutic fever

• thermic fever

• thirst fever

• three-day fever

• threshing fever

• tick fever

• tick-bite fever

• tick-borne fever

• Tobia fever

• traumatic fever

• trench fever

• trypanosome fever

• tsutsugamushi fever

• typhoid fever

• typhus fever

• undifferentiated type fever

• undulant fever

• undulating fever

• upgrade fever

• urethral fever

• urinary fever

• urticarial fever

• uveoparotid fever

• valley fever

• verruga fever

• vivax fever

• war fever

• Wesselsbron fever

• West African fever

• West Nile fever

• Whitmore's fever

• winter fever

• Wolhynia fever

• womb fever

• worm fever

• wound fever

• yellow fever

• Zika fever

• zinc fume fever

Verb

fever (third-person singular simple present fevers, present participle fevering, simple past and past participle fevered)

To put into a fever; to affect with fever.

To become fevered.

Anagrams

• fevre

Source: Wiktionary

Fe"ver, n. Etym: [OE. fever, fefer, AS. fefer, fefor, L. febris: cf. F. fièvre. Cf. Febrile.]

1. (Med.)

Definition: 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.

Note: Remitting fevers subside or abate at intervals; intermitting fevers intermit or entirely cease at intervals; continued or continual fevers neither remit nor intermit.

2. 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. An envious fever Of pale and bloodless emulation. Shak. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Shak. Brain fever, Continued fever, etc. See under Brain, Continued, etc.

– Fever and ague, a form of fever recurring in paroxysms which are preceded by chills. It is of malarial origin.

– Fever blister (Med.), a blister or vesicle often found about the mouth in febrile states; a variety of herpes.

– Fever bush (Bot.), the wild allspice or spice bush. See Spicewood.

– Fever powder. Same as Jame's powder.

– Fever root (Bot.), an American herb of the genus Triosteum (T. perfoliatum); -- called also feverwort amd horse gentian.

– Fever sore, a carious ulcer or necrosis. Miner.

Fe"ver, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fevered; p. pr. & vb. n. Fevering.]

Definition: To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip. [R.] The white hand of a lady fever thee. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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