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fever

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1 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

Synonyms of fever

affection, ail, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness, trouble

Words Related to fever

contagion, contagious disease

contagium, infection

attack, bout, fit, spell

debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, weakness

malaise, matter, pip

epidemic, pest, pestilence, plague

Near Antonyms of fever

fitness, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, soundness, wholeness, wholesomeness

Antonyms of fever

health, wellness

2 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

Synonyms of fever

agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, feverishness, flap, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, hysteria, rage, rampage, uproar

Words Related to fever

chaos, confusion, disorder, havoc, pandemonium, turmoil

bedlam, bother, brouhaha, bustle, clamor, clatter, commotion, disturbance, fuss, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, squall, stew, stir, storm, tempest, to-do, tumult

Near Antonyms of fever

calm, calmness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, quietude, repose, restfulness, sereneness, serenity, still, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility), tranquilness

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