feverishly

adverb

1
as in desperately

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2
as in busily

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Recent Examples of feverishly Teams feverishly shifted their rosters for a chance at the next title run, a shot at the Knicks’ throne. — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026 General manager Julien BriseBois was feverishly trying to improve the roster for next season and beyond. — Eduardo A. Encina, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2026 While Page Six reported that Jenner and Elordi have been trying to keep a low profile, gossip and entertainment outlets have managed to feverishly report on some of their outings and romantic getaways. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 9 July 2026 Geraldine Perdomo said of her sister, who was feverishly clawing at the ruins of her home for anything that would confirm the death of her two daughters. — Fernanda Pesce, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 The Carys took one look at Vera’s fish, then began to cast feverishly. — Hank Bradshaw, Outdoor Life, 24 June 2026 Devastating and often fatal wrong-way crashes have MassDOT and lawmakers like State Senator Bruce Tarr working feverishly to prevent them. — Paul Burton, CBS News, 15 June 2026 Fans have spent the past few months feverishly speculating about who the band will hire. — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2026 Ben’Imana offers no simple definitions of courage, but rather a feverishly human group portrait of its possible expressions, with the exceptional triumvirate of Nyirinkindi, Kabano and the radiant Nishimwe forming the story’s broken but still hopeful heart. — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feverishly
  1. desperately
  2. busily
  3. frantically
  4. actively
  5. crazily
  6. vigorously
  7. uncontrollably
  8. energetically
Adverb
  • But when careers in public interest law become less financially sustainable – or less financially predictable – recruiting the attorneys communities desperately need becomes even harder.
    — Verna L. Williams, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Photos of the missing included a young mother and her baby in Pereira; another showed an 80-year-old woman in Cali whose family was desperately looking for details after her building collapsed.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of desperately
Adverb
  • As Scott Frost took to the practice field Monday to open UCF’s preseason football camp, construction workers a few hundred yards away busily put the finishing touches on the Roth Tower expansion at the Acrisure Bounce House Stadium.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The British are busily removing Winston Churchill from their banknotes, replacing him with an engraving of a hedgehog.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
Definition of busily
Adverb
  • Video of the incident posted to TikTok show passengers frantically escaping the plane via its inflatable emergency slides on an airport taxiway.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2026
  • That’s when 72-year-old Leidis Rodríguez frantically cooked beans after the lights switched on this week following hours of uninterrupted blackouts.
    — Andrea Rodriguez, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of frantically
Adverb
  • As All In Build Continues Looking ahead, Rashad emphasized that legacy is not simply something inherited, but something actively created and passed forward.
    — Dominique Fluker, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Middlesex District Attorney's Office Police are actively looking for Arjun, who is believed to be driving that car, a 2014 green Honda Accord with Massachusetts license plate 34P-D94.
    — Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of actively
Adverb
  • And when Andreeva hits one of her crazily creative shots and turns to Martínez for praise, she is met with a smile, and maybe some clapping.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 June 2026
  • The scene used one of the film’s funniest visual gags, an apartment so crazily tilted that nobody inside it could stand up straight.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Definition of crazily
Adverb
  • Protect Both Academic Freedom and Institutional Neutrality Universities should vigorously defend the freedom of individual faculty and students to pursue controversial ideas.
    — David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The easy solution is to remove the most vigorously growing plants to give the rest a fighting chance.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of vigorously
Adverb
  • Meanwhile, wildfires have been blazing uncontrollably, most notably this week in the New Forest in southern England.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of uncontrollably
Adverb
  • Plenty of his peers filled the void, none more energetically than Chesney, who has by now built a beachy brand that almost rivals Buffett’s.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
  • There was also a large contingent of Iranian fans who energetically waved the nation’s current flag.
    — Todd Harmonson, Oc Register, 16 June 2026
Definition of energetically

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