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The little girl's case seems to be not very serious as her fever is abating.

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  1. noun Abnormally high body temperature.
  2. noun Any of various diseases characterized by abnormally high body temperature.
  3. noun A condition of heightened activity or excitement: a fever of anticipation.

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  • The little girl's case seems to be not very serious as her fever is abating. —  The Girls at Mount Morris
  • A violent attack of fever, made more serious and difficult to throw off by the overwrought condition of his nerves, kept Michael a helpless exile in the hands of the hospitable but somewhat ignorant Omdeh and the devoted Abdul When the fever was at its height, Michael was very often delirious; in his ramblings he let the discreet Abdul see deep down into the secret hiding-places of his heart. —  There was a King in Egypt
  • The crisis of the fever was at hand, and his legs bent under him. —  Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2
  • This fever is the direct result of poisons absorbed in the intestines. —  How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves"
  • She had not even the absorbing task of playing amateur Sister of Charity, for the fever was almost gone, and there was no more left for her to do There was no scandal or éclat this time about the broken-off marriage, for it had been kept very secret--only in the kitchen-cabinet there were endless surmisings and wonderings The wedding garments made for the second time for Miss Danton were for the second time put quietly away Father Francis, in all his visits to Danton Hall, never made the slightest allusion to the event that had taken place. —  Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English fefor and from Old French fievre, both from Latin febris.

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  1. Early modern English also feaver; from Middle English fever, fevere, fevre (partly from OF), earlier fefer, from Anglo-Saxon fefer, fefor = Old High German fiebar, Middle High German vieber, German fieber = Swedish Danish feber = Old French fevre, fievre, French fièvre = Provencal febre = Spanish fiebre = Portuguese febre = Italian febbre, from Latin febris, a fever; perhaps orig. *ferbris or *ferbis, from fervere, be hot, burn, boil; or perhaps literally ‘a trembling,’ akin to Greek φέβεσθαι, flee affrighted, φόβος, flight, panic fear, fear, terror.
  2. Not in Middle English; from Anglo-Saxon feferian, feforian, be feverish, from fefer, fever: see fever, n.
  3. Middle English, from Old French fevre, fevere, favre, fabre, from Latin faber, a smith, an artisan: see faber, fabric.
 

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