fever

noun

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1
as in disease
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that

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as in frenzy
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion in the fever of a political campaign a lot of things get said that never should have been said

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