Definitions for fevers

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fevers fe·ver

Spelling: [fee-ver]

IPA: /ˈfi vər/

Fevers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in fevers (eefrsv).

Definitions for fevers

noun

1. an abnormal condition of the body, characterized by undue rise in temperature, quickening of the pulse, and disturbance of various body functions.
2. an abnormally high body temperature.
3. the number of degrees of such a temperature above the normal.
4. any of a group of diseases in which high temperature is a prominent symptom:
5. intense nervous excitement:

verb (used with object)

1. to affect with or as with fever:

Origin of fevers

before 1000; Middle English; Old English fefer Latin febr- (stem of febris) fever; reinforced by Anglo-French fevre, Old French fievre Latin, as above

Examples for fevers

"I'll do it," I cried, no longer able to resist, for the fever of it was in my blood.

Nobody died from Ebola, or ISIS or Honduran children, unless it was in a goofball-induced, Louie Gohmert fever dream.

Not long after his arrival he had a slight attack of fever, which confined him to his bed.

Take Too Many Cooks: a fever dream of a segment that aired at 4:00am earlier this week.

"Yes, and catch their deaths of fever and ague," said Mrs. Bartlett.

Brother Mark of the Spicarium is sore smitten with a fever and could not come.

The sets—which, really, were a feat of design and direction—appeared to be remnants of a Lewis Carroll fever dream.

But there is no evidence Duncan had a fever, a symptom of the Ebola virus, when he entered the country.

Around 11 a.m. Thursday, Spencer determined that he had developed a fever of 100.3.

He was all right when I left him, two hours ago, with not a sign of fever.