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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
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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 for fever
- agitation,
- deliriousness,
- delirium,
- distraction,
- feverishness,
- flap,
- frenzy,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- hysteria,
- rage,
- rampage,
- uproar
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- calm,
- calmness,
- peace,
- peacefulness,
- placidity,
- quiet,
- quietude,
- repose,
- restfulness,
- sereneness,
- serenity,
- still,
- stillness,
- tranquillity
- (or tranquility),
- tranquilness
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Baby Fever
Baby Fever
The longing to have a child of one's own
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“Fever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fever. Accessed 3 Jun. 2020.
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The first known use of fever was before the 12th century
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