fever
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
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”). Displaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.
Inflected forms:
form: fevers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: feaver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
form: fevre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
form: fevers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fevering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fevered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fevered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: feaver
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
form: fevre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There has been a rise in my fever. I think I've the flu.
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.
gloss: Any of various diseases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-compounds
uncountable
usually
examples: scarlet fever
gloss: A state of excitement or anxiety.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an envious fever
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.
gloss: A group of stingrays.
pos: noun
tags: countable
neologism
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
She threw up her hands in excitement and the ball of water flew right into the pathway of the fever of stingrays.
gloss: Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
in-compounds
often
slang
uncountable
examples: Asian fever
clown fever
white fever
blue fever
gloss: To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
pos: verb
examples: a fevered lip
the white hand of a lady fever thee
gloss: To become fevered.
pos: verb
Related words: 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
Derived words: 7-day fever
African swine fever virus
antifever
Arab fever
baby fever
Bieber fever
Botany Bay fever
bovine ephemeral fever
bovine infectious petechial fever
bovine malignant catarrhal fever
bovine petechial fever
brain fever
brain-fever
brain-fever bird
buck fever
Bulam fever
camp fever
cat scratch fever
cedar fever
Charcot intermittent fever
Charcot's intermittent fever
drain fever
enfever
familial Mediterranean fever
feverable
fever-bark
fever-blister
fever bush
fever-chart
fever clinic
fever coat
fever-cooling
fever dream
fevered
feveret
fever-fly
fever fog
fever-heat
fever-hectic
feverish
feverless
feverlike
fever-lurdan
fever-lurden
fever-lurgan
fever-lurk
feverly
fever-nut
feverous
fever pitch
fever-pitched
fever-powder
fever-ridden
feverroot
fever-sick
feversome
fever-sore
fever-swamp
fever swamp
fever tea
fever trap
fever-trap
fever-tree
fever-twig
fever-weakened
feverweed
fever-weed
fever-wood
feverwort
fevery
forest fever tree
gaol-fever
gate fever
go fever
gold fever
hay-fever
hayfever
hay fever
hay feverite
hog fever
hog-fever
hospital fever
hybrid fever
I have a fever
Indian fever
jail fever
Japanese fever
jungle fever
Karelian fever
Katayama's fever
ladies' fever
lazaret fever
Liszt fever
low-grade fever
lunar hay fever
maculated fever
malignant catarrhal fever
maple fever
Marburg fever
Marburg hemorrhagic fever
marsh fever
Miana fever
milk fever
miniature scarlet fever
monkey fever
Ohara's fever
pageant fever
pencil fever
Persian relapsing fever
Pfeiffer's glandular fever
pink-fever
prison fever
pseudofever
putrid fever
quintan fever
rash fever
Rhodesian redwater fever
Rift Valley fever
Rocky Mountain fever
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
rose fever
San Joaquin fever
San Joaquin Valley fever
severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
ship-fever
ship fever
Spanish fever
stage fever
summit fever
sun-fever
swine fever
terai fever
thunder fever
tramp fever
white fever
white line fever
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: koors
lang: Arabic
word: حَرَارَة
roman: ḥarāra
lang: Armenian
word: հուզմունք
roman: huzmunkʻ
lang: Belarusian
word: ліхама́нка
roman: lixamánka
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 狂熱 /狂热
roman: kuángrè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 熱 /热
roman: rè
lang: Czech
word: horečka
lang: Finnish
word: kuume
lang: Finnish
word: huuma
lang: Finnish
word: vimma
lang: Greek
word: πυρετός
roman: pyretós
lang: Hungarian
word: izgalom
lang: Hungarian
word: izgatottság
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: feber
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: горучка
roman: horučka
lang: Polish
word: gorączka
lang: Polish
word: podniecenie
lang: Russian
word: жар
roman: žar
lang: Russian
word: лихора́дка
roman: lixorádka
lang: Russian
word: горя́чка
roman: gorjáčka
lang: Sicilian
word: liscìa
lang: Sicilian
word: lisìa
lang: Sicilian
word: scìḍḍicu
lang: Sicilian
word: scipitirìa
lang: Swahili
word: homa
lang: Swedish
word: feber
lang: Ukrainian
word: лихома́нка
roman: lyxománka