fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːvə/
ipa: /ˈfivɚ/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fevers
form: feaver
form: fevre
Etymology: From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“fever”) and Old French fievre (“fever”), from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Replaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.
Senses: examples: text: There has been a rise in my fever. I think I've the flu.
text: Proper nutrition – and even more important, proper hydration – is crucial in preventing and recovering from both fevers and colds. […] As Abramson explained, when we are sick, whether we have a fever or not, our metabolic rates skyrocket, and our bodies need more calories to support that high metabolic rate.
ref: 2016 September 16, Hailey Middlebrook, “Should you really feed a cold and starve a fever?”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
examples: text: scarlet fever
glosses: Any of various diseases.
raw_tags: with one or more preceding words
examples: text: an envious fever
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: There is little doubt that while war fever has not gripped Taipei, its economic foundations are being shaken. The stock market rose yesterday, but only because the Government has pumped $1.5 billion (£1 billion) into it after $370 million was drained from banks, and stocks were sold by investors who are worried by the Chinese manoeuvres.
ref: 1996 March 15, Jonathan Mirsky, “Taiwan President visits islanders to bolster morale”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, column 3:
glosses: A state of excitement or anxiety.
examples: text: On the way back to the mainland the boat passed over a fever of stingrays, and the sight of them through the glass was enough to colour everything else, and outstrip it.
ref: 2011, Julianne Schultz, editor, Griffith REVIEW 34: The Annual Fiction Edition:
text: They move like thoughts, like memory, like a Wes Anderson diorama of earthly delights: lionfish, an albacore, a fever of stingrays—and then like a wound, a sea turtle at eye level.
ref: 2020, Lindsay Illich, “sea turtle”, in rile & heave (everything reminds me of you): Poems:
text: She threw up her hands in excitement and the ball of water flew right into the pathway of the fever of stingrays.
ref: 2020, Sarah Elizabeth, Secrets of the Past: Ocean Academy Year 1:
glosses: A group of stingrays.
examples: text: Asian fever
text: clown fever
text: white fever
text: blue fever
glosses: Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.
Synonyms: sense: higher than normal body temperature
word: high temperature
sense: higher than normal body temperature
english: medical term
translation: medical term
word: pyrexia
sense: higher than normal body temperature
word: temperature
sense: state of excitement
word: excitation
sense: state of excitement
word: excitement
sense: state of excitement
word: passion
Hyponyms: abortus fever
absorption fever
acclimating fever
Aden fever
adynamic fever
aestivoautumnal fever
African Coast fever
algid pernicious fever
aphthous fever
ardent fever
arthropod-borne fever
artificial fever
aseptic fever
Asian fever
Assam fever
Astrakhan fever
ataxic fever
autumn fever
barrel fever
Bay fever
beaver fever
benign tertian fever
biduoterian fever
biliary fever
bilious fever
black fever
black fly fever
blackwater fever
blue fever
blue-tile fever
Boulogne fever
bouquet fever
boutonneuse fever
bovine epizootic fever
brain fever
brassfounder's fever
brass founder's fever
Brazilian purpuric fever
breakbone fever
buck fever
Bullis fever
bullous fever
Bunyamwera fever
Burdwan fever
Bwamba fever
cabin fever
cachectic fever
cachexial fever
California fever
California valley fever
camp fever
cane-cutter fever
canefield fever
cane-field fever
canicola fever
Cape Horn fever
Carrión's fever
Carter's fever
catarrhal fever
cat-bite fever
cat fever
catheter fever
cat-scratch fever
central fever
cerebro-spinal fever
cerebrospinal fever
Chagres fever
channel fever
Charcot's fever
chikungunya fever
childbed fever
childbirth fever
Choix fever
complicate fever
congestive fever
Congolian red fever
Congo red fever
continued fever
continuous fever
cotton fever
cotton-mill fever
country fever
Crimean fever
Cyprus fever
dance fever
dandy fever
date fever
deer fly fever
dehydration fever
dengue fever
desert fever
diary fever
digestive fever
diphasic milk fever
disfever
dock fever
double quotidian fever
drug fever
duck fever
Dum Dum fever
dumdum fever
Dumdum fever
Dutch type periodic fever
East Coast fever
Ebola fever
Ebola virus fever
elephantoid fever
Elokomin fluke fever
English fever
enteric fever
entericoid fever
entrance fever
ephemeral fever
epimastical fever
eruptive fever
essential fever
estivoautumnal fever
exanthematous fever
exsiccation fever
falciparum fever
familial Hibernian fever
familial periodic fever
famine fever
farrowing fever
fatigue fever
field fever
five-day fever
flood fever
fog fever
food fever
Fort Bragg fever
foundryman's fever
Gambian fever
gaol fever
gastric fever
Gibraltar fever
glandular fever
gold fever
grain fever
green fever
haematuric bilious fever
haemoglobinuric fever
haemorrhagic fever
Hankow fever
harvest fever
Hasami fever
Haverhill fever
hay fever
hectic fever
hematuric bilious fever
hemoglobinuric fever
hemorrhagic fever
hempen fever
hepatic intermittent fever
herpetic fever
horse sickness fever
hospital fever
humidifier fever
Ilheus fever
inanition fever
induced fever
inflammatory fever
intermittent fever
inundation fever
island fever
Jaccoud's dissociated fever
jail fever
Japanese flood fever
Japanese river fever
jungle fever
jungle yellow fever
Junin fever
Katayama fever
Kedani fever
Kenya fever
Kew Gardens fever
Kinkiang fever
Korin fever
Lábrea fever
Lábrea's black fever
land fever
Lassa fever
laurel fever
Lazaret fever
lechuguilla fever
Lhasa fever
Lombard fever
Lone Star fever
low grade fever
lung fever
malarial catarrhal fever
malarial fever
malignant tertian fever
Malta fever
Manchurian fever
Marseilles fever
marsh fever
Mediterranean coast fever
Mediterranean erythematous fever
Mediterranean exanthematous fever
Mediterranean fever
Mediterranean spotted fever
meningotyphoid fever
metal fume fever
Meuse fever
Mexican fever
Mianeh fever
miliary fever
milk fever
mill fever
Monday fever
monoleptic fever
Mossman fever
mountain fever
mud fever
mumu fever
Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever
Murchison-Sanderson fever
nanukayami fever
Neapolitan fever
nervous fever
nine mile fever
nodal fever
o'nyong-nyong fever
Oropouche fever
Oroya fever
paludal fever
papataci fever
papatasi fever
pappataci fever
papular fever
paratyphoid fever
parenteric fever
parrot fever
parturient fever
Pel-Ebstein fever
periodic fever
petechial fever
pharyngoconjunctival fever
phlebotomus fever
pinta fever
pituitous fever
polka fever
polyleptic fever
polymer fume fever
Pomona fever
Pontiac fever
Potomac fever
Potomac horse fever
pretibial fever
prison fever
prison fever typhus
protein fever
puerperal fever
puking fever
pukka fever
purple fever
putrid fever
Pym fever
Pym's fever
pyogenic fever
Q fever
query fever
rabbit fever
ratbite fever
rat-bite fever
rat fever
recrudescent typhus fever
recurrent fever
recurring fever
red fever
redwater fever
relapsing fever
remittent fever
rheumatic fever
Rhodesian fever
rice-field fever
Rock fever
rock fever
Roman fever
rose fever
Ross River fever
rotanny fever
run a fever
sakushu fever
Salinem fever
salt fever
sandfly fever
sand-fly fever
Santa Marta fever
São Paulo fever
scarlet fever
Schamberg fever
Schottmüller's fever
secondary fever
Sennetsu fever
septic fever
Shar Pei fever
shin bone fever
ship fever
shipping fever
shoddy fever
Sindbis fever
slime fever
slow fever
smelter's fever
snail fever
solar fever
Songo fever
spelter's fever
spirillary fever
spirillum fever
splenic fever
spotted fever
spottled fever
spring fever
steroid fever
sthenic fever
stockyards fever
stranger's fever
streptobacillary fever
summer fever
sun fever
suppurative fever
surgical fever
swamp fever
swine fever
symptomatic fever
syphilitic fever
Texas cattle fever
Texas fever
therapeutic fever
thermic fever
thirst fever
three-day fever
threshing fever
tick-bite fever
tick-borne fever
tick fever
Tobia fever
tomato fever
traumatic fever
trench fever
trypanosome fever
tsutsugamushi fever
typhoid fever
typhus fever
undifferentiated type fever
undulant fever
undulating fever
upgrade fever
urethral fever
urinary fever
urticarial fever
uveoparotid fever
valley fever
verruga fever
vivax fever
war fever
Wesselsbron fever
West African fever
West African hemorrhagic fever
West Nile fever
Whitmore's fever
winter fever
Wolhynia fever
womb fever
worm fever
wound fever
yellow fever
Zika fever
zinc fume fever
Derived terms: sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: 7-day fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: African swine fever virus
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: antifever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Arab fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: baby fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Bieber fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Botany Bay fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: bovine ephemeral fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: bovine infectious petechial fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: bovine malignant catarrhal fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: bovine petechial fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: brain fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: brain-fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: brain-fever bird
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: buck fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Bulam fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: camp fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: cat scratch fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: cedar fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Charcot intermittent fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Charcot's intermittent fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: drain fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: enfever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: familial Mediterranean fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feverable
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-bark
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-blister
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever bush
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-chart
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever clinic
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever coat
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-cooling
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever dream
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fevered
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feveret
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-fly
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever fog
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-heat
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-hectic
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feverish
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feverless
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feverlike
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-lurdan
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-lurden
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-lurgan
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-lurk
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feverly
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-nut
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feverous
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever pitch
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-pitched
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-powder
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-ridden
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feverroot
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-sick
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feversome
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-sore
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever swamp
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-swamp
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever tea
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-trap
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-tree
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-twig
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-weakened
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-weed
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feverweed
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fever-wood
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: feverwort
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: fevery
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: gaol-fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: gate fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: go fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: gold fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: hay-fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: hay fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: hayfever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: hay feverite
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: hog fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: hog-fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: hospital fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: I have a fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Indian fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: jail fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Japanese fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: jungle fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Karelian fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Katayama's fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: ladies' fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: lazaret fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Liszt fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: low-grade fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: lunar hay fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: maculated fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: malignant catarrhal fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: maple fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Marburg fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Marburg hemorrhagic fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: marsh fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Miana fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: milk fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: miniature scarlet fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: monkey fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Ohara's fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: pageant fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: pencil fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Persian relapsing fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Pfeiffer's glandular fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: pink-fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: prison fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: pseudofever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: putrid fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: quintan fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: rash fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Rhodesian redwater fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Rift Valley fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Rocky Mountain fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Rocky Mountain spotted fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: rose fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: San Joaquin fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: San Joaquin Valley fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: ship-fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: ship fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: Spanish fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: stage fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: summit fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: sun-fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: swine fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: terai fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: thunder fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: tramp fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: white fever
sense: some unsorted, may be hyponyms
word: white line fever
Related terms: feed a cold, starve a fever
fever ague
fever and ague
fever blister
fever bush
fever grass
fever lent
fever of unknown origin
fever pitch
fever powder
fever ring
Fever River
fever root
fever sore
fever therapy
fever thermometer
fever treatment
fever tree
fever twig
Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome
febrile
fervent
fervid
fervor
hyperthermia