| NOUN | state | fever, febrility, febricity, pyrexia, feverishness | a rise in the temperature of the body |
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| feeling | fever | intense nervous anticipation |
| Sounds | fiy'ver | |
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| Rhymes | achiever ... woodcarver: 114 rhymes with ver... | |
| Meaning | A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection. | |
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| Synonyms | febrility, febricity, pyrexia, feverishness | |
| Narrower | hyperpyrexia | Extremely high fever (especially in children) |
| Broader | symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
| Spanish | febricity, fiebre, pirexia, temperatura | |
| Catalan | febre, pirèxia | |
| Adjectives | afebrile | having no fever |
| febrile, feverish | of or relating to or characterized by fever | |
| feverous | having or affected by a fever | |
| Meaning | Intense nervous anticipation. | |
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| Example | "in a fever of resentment" | |
| Narrower | buck fever | nervous excitement / excitement of an inexperienced hunter |
| gold fever | greed and the contagious excitement / excitement of a gold rush | |
| Broader | anticipation, expectancy | An expectation |
| Spanish | fiebre | |
| Catalan | febre | |
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