fever
See also: Fever
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“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.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfiːvə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfivɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: fe‧ver
NounEdit
fever (countable and uncountable, plural fevers)
- A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
- "I have a fever. I think I've the flu."
- (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
- A state of excitement or anxiety.
- 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 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- an envious fever
- 1996 March 15, Mirsky, Jonathan, “Taiwan President visits islanders to bolster morale”, in The Times[1], number 65,528, ISSN 0140-0460, OCLC 502384265, Overseas News, page 15, column 3:
- 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.
- (neologism) A group of stingrays.
- 2011, Julianne Schultz, editor, Griffith REVIEW 34: The Annual Fiction Edition:
- 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.
- 2020, Lindsay Illich, “sea turtle”, in rile & heave (everything reminds me of you): Poems:
- 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.
- 2020, Sarah Elizabeth, Secrets of the Past: Ocean Academy Year 1:
- She threw up her hands in excitement and the ball of water flew right into the pathway of the fever of stingrays.
SynonymsEdit
- (higher than normal body temperature): high temperature, pyrexia (medical term), temperature
- (state of excitement): excitation, excitement, passion
HyponymsEdit
- 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
- Assam 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
- bouquet fever
- boutonneuse fever
- bovine epizootic fever
- brain fever
- brass founder's fever
- brassfounder'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
- camp fever
- cane-cutter fever
- cane-field fever
- canefield fever
- canicola fever
- Cape Horn fever
- Carrión's fever
- Carter's fever
- cat fever
- cat-bite fever
- cat-scratch fever
- catarrhal fever
- catheter fever
- central fever
- cerebro-spinal fever
- cerebrospinal fever
- Chagres fever
- channel fever
- Charcot's fever
- chikungunya fever
- childbed fever
- childbirth fever
- Choix fever
- congestive fever
- Congo red fever
- Congolian 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
- 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
- Lombard fever
- Lone Star fever
- lung 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
- 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
- purple fever
- putrid fever
- Pym fever
- Pym's fever
- pyogenic fever
- Q fever
- query fever
- rabbit fever
- rat-bite fever
- ratbite 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
- sand-fly fever
- sandfly 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 fever
- tick-bite fever
- tick-borne fever
- Tobia 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 Nile fever
- Whitmore's fever
- winter fever
- Wolhynia fever
- womb fever
- worm fever
- wound fever
- yellow fever
- Zika fever
- zinc fume fever
Derived termsEdit
some unsorted, may be hyponyms
- 7-day fever
- African swine fever virus
- 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
- buck fever
- Bulam fever
- camp fever
- cat scratch fever
- cedar fever
- Charcot intermittent fever
- Charcot's intermittent fever
- drain fever
- enfever
- familial Mediterranean fever
- fever bush
- fever clinic
- fever coat
- fever dream
- fever fog
- fever pitch
- fever swamp
- fever-bark
- fever-blister
- fever-chart
- fever-cooling
- fever-fly
- fever-heat
- fever-hectic
- fever-lurdan
- fever-lurden
- fever-lurgan
- fever-lurk
- fever-nut
- fever-pitched
- fever-powder
- fever-ridden
- fever-sick
- fever-sore
- fever-swamp
- fever-trap
- fever-tree
- fever-twig
- fever-weakened
- fever-weed
- fever-wood
- feverable
- fevered
- feveress
- feveret
- feverish
- feverite
- feverless
- feverly
- feverous
- feverroot
- feverwort
- fevery
- gaol-fever
- gate fever
- go fever
- gold fever
- hay fever
- hay-fever
- hog fever
- hog-fever
- hospital fever
- I have a fever
- jail fever
- jungle fever
- Karelian fever
- ladies' fever
- lazaret fever
- low-grade fever
- lunar hay fever
- maculated fever
- malignant catarrhal fever
- maple fever
- Marburg fever
- Marburg hemorrhagic fever
- marsh fever
- milk fever
- miniature scarlet fever
- monkey fever
- Ohara's fever
- pageant fever
- Pfeiffer's glandular fever
- pink-fever
- prison fever
- 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
- white line fever
Related termsEdit
- 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
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
higher than normal body temperature
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usually in combination: any of various diseases
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state of excitement (of a person or people)
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See alsoEdit
VerbEdit
fever (third-person singular simple present fevers, present participle fevering, simple past and past participle fevered)
- To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
- a fevered lip
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene xiii]:
- the white hand of a lady fever thee
- To become fevered.
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- fever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- fever in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911