feverish

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a fever.
  2. adjective Having a fever or symptoms characteristic of a fever.
  3. adjective Causing or tending to cause fever.
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  • He is feverish, and hath sent for Mr. Pierce to let him blood, but not being in the way he puts it off till night, but he stirs not abroad to-day. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1662/63
  • His face appeared feverish, and Lynley felt a momentary surge of sympathy for the man. —  With No One as Witness
  • Its innards-wet, feverish, and slippery'slid between his shoulder-blades like warm egg-yoke. —  The Waste Lands
  • The origin of these changes is in the Parisian brain itself — a brain that is quick and feverish, always working, greedy of knowledge, easily tired, grasping to-day the splendours of a work, seeing to-morrow its defects, building up reputations as rapidly as it pulls them down, and yet, in spite of all its apparent caprices, always logical and sincere. —  Musicians of To-Day
  • He seemed feverish, abstracted. —  The Dreamthief's Daughter
 

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frantic ·  restless ·  fevered ·  sudden ·  breathless ·  morbid ·  momentary ·  uneasy ·  hysterical ·  tremulous ·  childish ·  unnatural
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/ˈfivərɪʃ/
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