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fever

noun

ˈfē-vər How to pronounce fever (audio)
Definition of fevernext
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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2
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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Recent Examples of fever Symptoms can include fever, cough, runny nose, red or watery eyes and a rash. — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2026 Typical symptoms are a high fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle, bone or joint pain, nausea and vomiting, swollen glands, and skin rash. — Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026 Beyond common cold symptoms like a cough, sore throat and runny nose, people sick with COVID-19 often have body aches, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing, headache, fatigue, fever and loss of taste and/or smell. — Ann Sheehan, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026 Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue fever in decades, and the toll now includes a death. — ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fever
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fever
  1. disease
  2. frenzy
  3. illness
  4. rampage
  5. ailment
  6. ill
  7. sickness
Noun
  • Scientists see a troubling trend but are still investigating how the disease develops.
    — Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The report said there was no evidence of a fatal injury or organic disease, though investigators could not determine how Wells suffered the bruise.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of disease
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  • Mid-decade redistricting frenzy Vance suggested that Republican state lawmakers have every right to dilute the voting power of left-leaning Kansas City amid a bitter partisan fight for control of Congress.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
  • In 2023, the pair famously sent the internet into a frenzy when Swift appeared at a Chiefs game amid speculation that the two were dating.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of frenzy
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  • As a result, more people have now died of environmental illnesses that followed the September 11 attacks than perished during the collapse of the towers that day.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
  • About 80% of infected people develop no symptoms, while most others experience a mild flu-like illness.
    — Giada Zampano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of illness
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  • And, of course, there won’t be many people who want to defend someone in that position — or, indeed, listen to any hard-luck stories — now the details have been outlined in court about his motorway rampage.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The Indians continued their rampage on Thursday night, putting up 41 more points in Week 3 as the Indians came away with a 41-27 win over McKinney Boyd in front of a homecoming crowd at Keller ISD Stadium.
    — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of rampage
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  • In determining whether to reimburse treatment for such ailments, insurers turn to Food and Drug Administration labels and expert guidelines.
    — Arthur Allen, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Eleven gullible idiots were talked into acquitting because of an imaginary female ailment.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of ailment
Noun
  • In this framework, the cure for the party’s ills can only come from inside the party, not from any external force.
    — ANDREW MERTHA, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Football cannot be expected to answer societal ills, but this is the sort of area in which the club’s foundation does its invaluable outreach work, a place touched by those statistics about deprivation and crime.
    — Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of ill
Noun
  • Mao’s resolution treated each of these as a sickness that could sometimes be cured through a regimen of criticism and self-criticism in front of peers.
    — ANDREW MERTHA, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026
  • In Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, evil is a native sickness that contaminates an otherwise perfect, unsullied child of empire.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of sickness

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