feverish

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When twelve o'clock struck she was feeling hot and feverish, and, in spite of the coldness of the night, she rose and opened the window.

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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 very feverish, and his life may depend on your attention Paul felt as he had never felt before, proud and happy at being thus spoken to, and selected by the surgeon to perform a responsible office, even though it was for one whom he had taught himself to look upon in the light of an enemy. —  Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy
  • Hector was very feverish, and Loraine himself began to feel ill. —  The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America
  • My wound made me feverish, and we must have been lying here ever so long in the dark Your wound, Dal Yes; I had almost forgotten it in what we had to go through, but one of the scoundrels shot me. —  To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze
  • He was feverish, and lay wild-eyed and strange, evidently recognising no one, but talking in a low, muttering way It's too much to be on my shoulders," Syd said to himself, despondently, as he took off his hat, and stood letting the cool morning air fan his forehead. —  Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea
  • I asked anxiously No; only a little feverish, as the natural result of his wound That was what made you stay so long then?" —  Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea
 

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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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