fever-ridden

English edit

Etymology edit

fever +‎ -ridden

Adjective edit

fever-ridden (comparative more fever-ridden, superlative most fever-ridden)

(of a place or community) Experiencing an epidemic of one of the diseases known as fever (such as yellow fever).
- 1900, Ira L. Reeves, Bamboo Tales, Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing, Chapter , pp. 135-136,^[1]
  […] it was but shortly after he had returned from fever-ridden Santiago, when in the hospital at Montauk Point, that the much-coveted document, making him an officer in the United States Army, reached him.
- 2007, Giles Foden, “The brio of Ali Banana” (review of Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele, The Guardian, 2 June, 2007,^[2]
  Rain and illness turn the camp into a fever-ridden mudbath.
(of a place) Harbouring the virus that causes one of the diseases known as fever.
- 1890, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter 12, in The Sign of the Four, London: Spencer Blackett:
  Whose loot is this, if it is not ours? Where is the justice that I should give it up to those who have never earned it? Look how I have earned it! Twenty long years in that fever-ridden swamp, all day at work under the mangrove-tree, all night chained up in the filthy convict-huts, bitten by mosquitoes, racked with ague […]
- 1957, Ian Fleming, chapter 7, in The Diamond Smugglers‎^[3], London: Jonathan Cape:
  […] the diamond mine was six and a half hours’ walk through fever-ridden jungle, fraught with hazards from wild animals […]
(of a person) Suffering from fever.
- 1907, Richard Harding Davis, chapter 3, in The Congo and Coasts of Africa‎^[4], New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 89:
  The State posts were “clearings,” less than one hundred yards square, cut out of the jungle. Sometimes only black men were in charge, but as a rule the chef de poste was a lonely, fever-ridden white, whose only interest in our arrival was his hope that we might spare him quinine.
- 1936 September 14, “Abscess Abolished”, in Time‎^[5], archived from the original on 27 August 2013:
  Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished.
- 1999, “Soothing Solutions to the Cold & Flu Season” (review of A Soothing Broth by Pat Willard), Washington Post, 17 March, 1999,^[6]
  Willard is plagued by the memory of one seemingly endless night as a newlywed when she helplessly watched her fever-ridden husband toss and turn in misery.