feverfe‧ver /ˈfiːvə $ -ər/ ●●○ noun 
Andy has a fever and won’t be coming into work today. I woke up this morning with a fever and an upset stomach. She’s running a fever (=has a fever).a high/low/slight fever The usual symptoms are a pink rash with a slight fever. → hay fever, scarlet fever, yellow fever, glandular fever, rheumatic feverRegisterIn everyday English, people usually use fever to talk about a very high temperature. If someone's temperature is just high, they say that someone has a temperature rather than has a fever:· He stayed home from school because he had a temperature.2[singular] a situation in which many people feel very excited or feel very strongly about somethingfever of a fever of excitement on Wall Streetelection/carnival etc fever (=great interest or excitement about a particular activity or event) Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup.3(at) fever pitch British English if people’s feelings are at fever pitch, they are extremely excited: The nation was at fever pitch in the days leading up to the election. After a night of rioting, tensions in the city reached fever pitch. → cabin fever
WORD ORIGINfever
Origin:
900-1000 Latin febrisEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Academy Award fever is taking over Hollywood.
- Football fever has always been widespread in Thailand, but this year perhaps more than ever before.
- For a few months after its introduction, lottery fever swept the nation.
- By 1742, though the fever had subsided, he was charging Edwards's Northampton following with insanity.
- Headaches due to viral infections may be accompanied by fever, muscle aches, and malaise.
- I downplay the sweats, the shakes, the fever.
- It enveloped Sylvie, chilled the dampness of her forehead, calmed the fever which had brought her here.
- The depression of last week had lifted like a fever passing when the patient sleeps or asks for food.
Longman Language Activatorthe feeling of being excited
· If you're looking for excitement, you won't find it here.excitement of · He missed the excitement of working with so many intelligent people.in/with excitement (=in an excited way) · In the stands, the crowd was shouting with excitement.great/tremendous excitement · There's an atmosphere of tremendous excitement here in the stadium.
a sudden very strong feeling of excitement, mixed with pleasure and sometimes fear: thrill of: · Most of the researchers are motivated by the simple thrill of discovery.get a thrill out of something: · Even though I've been acting for 40 years, I still get a thrill out of going on stage on opening night.give somebody a thrill: · Using a gun always gave me a strange thrill.
a feeling of happy excitement, for example that you get from an exciting physical activity or from something you have achieved: · She was filled with exhilaration when she first saw her newborn baby.exhilaration of: · Nothing can compare with the exhilaration of riding a motorcycle as fast as you can.
excited and cheerful feelings or behaviour, especially of a group of young people: · They didn't mean to cause any damage - it was just high spirits.in high spirits: · It was the last day of term and everyone was in high spirits.
extreme excitement that makes people cry, laugh, shout etc uncontrollably: · The hysteria of the screaming girls was somewhat frightening.mass hysteria (=hysteria in a crowd of people): · The pushing and grabbing at yesterday's sales bordered on mass hysteria.
when a lot of people are very excited about a particular thing: World Cup/Harry Potter/election etc fever: · For a few months after its introduction, lottery fever swept the nation.· Football fever has always been widespread in Thailand, but this year perhaps more than ever before.
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noundeformity, noundegenerative, adjectivedehydrate, verbdelirious, adjectivedelirium, noundelusion, noundementia, noundengue fever, noundepression, noundermatitis, noundiabetes, noundiabetic, adjectivediabetic, noundiagnosis, noundialysis, noundiaper rash, noundiarrhoea, noundiphtheria, noundisability, noundisable, verbdisabled, adjectivedischarge, verbdisease, noundisgorge, verbdislocate, verbdisorder, noundissipated, adjectivedissipation, noundistemper, noundistend, verbdizzy, adjectivedoddering, adjectivedoddery, adjectivedonate, verbdonor, noundouble vision, noundoughy, adjectivedown, adverbDown's syndrome, noundrawn, adjectivedressing, noundrinker, noundrunk, adjectivedrunk, noundrunken, adjectivedull, adjectivedumb, adjectiveDVT, noundysentery, noundyslexia, noundyspepsia, noundyspeptic, adjectiveearache, nouneating disorder, nounEbola, nounectopic pregnancy, nouneczema, nounemaciated, adjectiveemasculate, verbembolism, nounemphysema, nounencephalitis, nounendoscope, nounenervate, verbenteritis, nounepidemic, nounepilepsy, nounepileptic, adjectiveepileptic, nounetiology, nounexcruciating, adjectiveexposure, nouneyeless, adjectiveeye strain, nounfail, verbfaint, nounfester, verbfever, nounfever blister, nounfevered, adjectivefeverish, adjectivefirst aid, nounfit, nounflat feet, nounflat-footed, adjectiveflu, nounfood poisoning, nounfoot and mouth disease, nounfracture, verbfracture, nounfrostbite, noungall, noungammy, adjectiveganglion, noungangrene, noungas, noungash, noungastric, adjectivegastritis, noungastroenteritis, nounGerman measles, nounget, verbgingivitis, nounglandular fever, nounglaucoma, noungnarled, adjectivegonorrhea, noungout, noungrand mal, noungraze, verbgraze, noungriping, adjectivegroggy, adjectivegrowing pains, noungrowth, noungush, verbgynaecology, nounhacking cough, nounhaemophilia, nounhaemophiliac, nounhaemorrhage, nounhaemorrhage, verbhaemorrhoids, nounhalitosis, nounhandicap, nounhandicapped, adjectivehangover, nounhard of hearing, adjectiveharelip, nounhay fever, nounheadache, nounhealth, nounheart attack, nounheartburn, nounheart disease, nounheart failure, nounheat exhaustion, nounheat rash, nounheatstroke, nounheave, verbhepatitis, nounhernia, nounherpes, nounHIV, nounhormone replacement therapy, nounhospital, nounhospitalize, verbhot flush, nounhousebound, adjectiveHRT, nounhump, nounhumpback, nounhunchback, nounhungover, adjectivehydrophobia, nounhypertension, nounhypothermia, nounhysterectomy, nounhysteria, nounhysterical, adjectiveillness, nounimmune, adjectiveimmune system, nounimmunity, nounimmunize, verbimmunology, nounimpacted, adjectiveimpediment, nounimpetigo, nounimpotent, adjectiveincision, nounincontinent, adjectiveincubate, verbincurable, adjectiveindigestion, nounindisposed, adjectiveindisposition, nouninfantile, adjectiveinfantile paralysis, nouninfect, verbinfected, adjectiveinfection, nouninfectious, adjectiveinfirmity, nouninflammation, nouninflammatory, adjectiveinfluenza, nouninfusion, nouningrowing, adjectiveinoculate, verbinoperable, adjectiveinsane, adjectiveinsanity, nouninsomnia, nouninsomniac, nouninstability, nounintensive care, nounintravenous, adjectiveinvalid, nouninvalidity, nouninvasive, adjectiveirregular, adjectiveirritable bowel syndrome, nounirritant, nounirritate, verbirritated, adjectiveirritation, noun-ism, suffixisolation, nounjaundice, nounjaundiced, adjectivejet lag, nounknock-kneed, adjectiveknotted, adjectivelaceration, nounlaryngitis, nounlegionnaire's disease, nounleper, nounleprosy, nounlesion, nounleukemia, nounlisp, nounlisteria, nounliverish, adjectivelockjaw, nounlong-sighted, adjectiveloose, adjectivelozenge, nounlumbago, nounlunacy, nounLyme disease, nounmad cow disease, nounmalady, nounmalaise, nounmalaria, nounmalformation, nounmalignancy, nounmalignant, adjectivemalnourished, adjectivemalnutrition, nounmange, nounmangy, adjectivemania, nounmanic, adjectivemanic depression, nounmastitis, nounME, nounmeasles, nounmedicinal, adjectivemegalomania, nounmegalomaniac, nounmelancholia, nounmelancholic, adjectivemelanoma, nounmend, verbmeningitis, nounmentally handicapped, adjectivemigraine, nounmild, adjectivemiscarriage, nounmole, nounmongol, nounmono, nounmononucleosis, nounmorbid, adjectivemorning sickness, nounmoron, nounmotion sickness, nounmotor neurone disease, nounMRI, nounMRSA, nounMS, nounmultiple sclerosis, nounmumps, nounmurmur, nounmusclebound, adjectivemuscular dystrophy, nounmute, adjectivemute, nounmyopia, nounmyopic, adjectivemyxomatosis, nounnarcolepsy, nounnausea, nounnauseate, verbnauseous, adjectivenearsighted, adjectivenervous breakdown, nounnettle rash, nounneuralgia, nounneurosis, nounneurotic, adjectivenosebleed, nounnotifiable, adjectiveNSU, nounobesity, nounoff-colour, adjectiveoperate, verboperation, nounophthalmic, adjectiveophthalmology, noun-osis, suffixosteoarthritis, nounosteopathy, nounosteoporosis, nounoutpatient, nounoverbite, nounpacemaker, nounpaediatrics, nounpale, adjectivepallid, adjectivepallor, nounpalpitate, verbpalpitations, nounpalsy, nounpandemic, nounparalyse, verbparalysed, adjectiveparalysis, nounparalytic, adjectiveparalytic, nounparanoia, nounparaplegia, nounparaplegic, nounparasitic, adjectiveParkinson's disease, nounparoxysm, nounpasty, adjectivepasty-faced, adjectivepathogen, nounpathological, adjectivepathology, nounpeaked, adjectivepeaky, adjectivepellagra, nounpeptic ulcer, nounperforated, adjectiveperiod pain, nounperitonitis, nounpernicious anaemia, nounpersecution complex, nounpestilence, nounpestilential, adjectivepetit mal, nounpharyngitis, nounphlebitis, nounphlegm, noun-phobic, suffixphysiotherapy, nounpigeon-toed, adjectivepins and needles, nounplacebo, nounplague, nounplaque, nounplaster cast, nounpleurisy, nounPMS, nounPMT, nounpneumonia, nounpockmark, nounpockmarked, adjectivepoisoning, nounpolio, nounpolyp, nounpoor, adjectivepost-traumatic stress disorder, nounpremenstrual tension, nounprescribe, verbprescription, nounpreventive medicine, nounprickle, verbprickly heat, nounprognosis, nounprolapse, nounprophylactic, adjectiveprophylactic, nounprophylaxis, nounpsoriasis, nounpsychopath, nounpsychosis, nounpsychosomatic, adjectivepsychotic, adjectivepuffy, adjectivepull, verbpurulent, adjectivepus, nounpustule, nounqueasy, adjectiverabid, adjectiverabies, nounradiation sickness, nounradiography, nounrash, nounraw, adjectivereact, verbreaction, nounreceive, verbrecuperate, verbrecuperative, adjectiveregurgitate, verbrelapse, verbremission, nounrepetitive strain injury, nounresistance, nounrespond, verbretch, verbRhesus factor, nounrheumatic, adjectiverheumatic fever, nounrheumatism, nounrheumatoid arthritis, nounrickets, nounringworm, nounRSI, nounrubella, nounrun-down, adjectiverunny, adjectiverupture, nounsaddle-sore, adjectivesalmonella, nounscab, nounscabby, adjectivescabies, nounscald, verbscald, nounscaly, adjectivescar, nounscar, verbscarlet fever, nounschizophrenia, nounsciatica, nounsclerosis, nounscrape, verbscrape, nounscratch, nounscurvy, nounseasick, adjectiveseizure, nounself-examination, nounsenile, adjectivesenile dementia, nounsenseless, adjectivesepsis, nounseptic, adjectivesepticaemia, nounserum, nounset, verbsexually transmitted disease, nounshell shock, nounshell-shocked, adjectiveshingles, nounshock, nounshort-sighted, adjectivesickle-cell anaemia, nounsickly, adjectivesickness, nounside effect, nounsightless, adjectivesimple fracture, nounsleeping sickness, nounslipped disc, nounsmallpox, nounsnakebite, nounsnow blindness, nounsore, adjectivesore, nounspastic, adjectivespecial needs, nounspecimen, nounspina bifida, nounsprain, verbsputum, nounsquint, verbsquint, nounstammer, nounstarvation, nounstarve, verbSTD, nounstomachache, nounstone, nounstrain, nounstrain, verbstrangulated, adjectivestrep throat, nounstroke, nounsty, nounsuccumb, verbsufferer, nounsunstroke, nounsuperbug, nounsurgical, adjectiveswelling, nounswollen, 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verbwriter's cramp, nounyaws, nounyeast infection, nounyellow fever, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Andy has a fever and won’t be coming into work today. She’s running a fever (=has a fever). The usual symptoms are a pink rash with a slight fever. After a night of rioting, tensions in the city reached fever pitch.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The goal roused the crowd to fever pitch (=a very excited level).COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
Andy has a fever and won’t be coming into work today. She’s running a fever (=has a fever). The usual symptoms are a pink rash with a slight fever. (=great interest or excitement about a particular activity or event) Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup.
Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup. After a night of rioting, tensions in the city reached fever pitch. (=a mind that imagines strange things that are not real)· These stories are the product of an overactive imagination.
The goal roused the crowd to fever pitch (=a very excited level).· Damon had given Jasper measles, glandular fever, two bouts of flu and two colds since Easter.· Occasionally a person will suffer from a long and unpleasant illness like glandular fever, but this is rare.· He contracted glandular fever and viral meningitis.· The 19-year-old Boat Club starlet was struck down by glandular fever last summer, and spent a frustrating time on the sidelines.· These symptoms looked just like those of glandular fever, and that was what her doctor diagnosed.· But she suffered a setback when a bout of glandular fever looked like bringing her season to an abrupt halt.· This virus causes glandular fever and is also associated with a human cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma.· Or was he stricken with glandular fever?
· These include trauma, sunlight, high fever, and general debility.· At one point, he had a high fever, a severe rash and intense swelling all over his tiny body.· Cold extremities with hot head and back; face purple during congestion, high fever.· Mary, the youngest child, and only girl, of Carlton and Harriet Babbs had a high fever in 1952.· Pétain awoke with a high fever, and a doctor diagnosed double pneumonia.· Rarely, a subarachnoid bleed can present with high fever, stiff neck, and headache masquerading as meningitis.· I developed a high fever and was carried into a waiting truck.
· I ran a constant low fever waiting for my ride to come and take me away to something finer.
· If there has been a history of rheumatic fever in the past.· They said it was rheumatic fever for two years....· She contracted rheumatic fever at the age of ten.· The chorea tends to occur several months after rheumatic fever and lasts four to six weeks at most.· Any family history of rheumatic fever?· He left Uppingham in 1937, following rheumatic fever, to serve with a Lloyd's underwriting firm.
· You see, it turned out to be scarlet fever, which is a notifiable disease.· A severe bout of scarlet fever as a boy left him so deaf that he was unable to attend school.· He didn't have meningitis, or scarlet fever.· Smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, pneumonia, plague, scarlet fever, diarrhea.· And she had scarlet fever, but she never complained.· There were plenty of diseases. Scarlet fever, mumps, chicken pox, and whooping cough floated in the air.· An outbreak of scarlet fever had taken the nine-year-old twins in little more than a week.· Children were carried off by diphtheria, scarlet fever, and measles.
· Both children then fell seriously ill with typhoid fever: Nannerl nearly died.· At sixteen she was stricken with typhoid fever, which took her a long time to get over.· A spokesman said that Soglo was suffering from fatigue following an attack of typhoid fever.· Hopkins died in Dublin 8 June 1889 of typhoid fever.· Two years later she applied to nurse in the Boer War and died from typhoid fever at Simonstown, aged 37.
· Once the rainy season began in April, malaria, yellow fever, typhoid and scurvy began to take their toll.· The shift could expand the parts of the world where malaria and yellow fever are found.· Thus, outbreaks of urban yellow fever evolve slowly.· They died in epidemics of yellow fever, cholera, and smallpox.· In two of the 16, permission for necropsy was granted and histopathology of liver tissue was compatible with yellow fever.· The pattern of reaction with dengue and yellow-fever antigen, respectively, made yellow fever the most likely diagnosis.· About 30,000 workers died during its construction, either from industrial accidents or from rampant yellow fever and malaria.· Interpretation Urban transmission of yellow fever in Santa Cruz was limited in space and time.
NOUN· Like a lot of people excited over these prospects, I have recently contracted a terrible case of cabin fever.
· Sick and tired of election fever and politics?
· Serge wouldn't even allow her a kitten because of his hay fever.· Our 4-year-old daughter is sneezing like she has hay fever.· Student B immediately slams it shut, complaining bitterly of hay fever.· Children can have hay fever, and despite the name, spring is not an uncommon time for its symptoms to appear.· The treatment is effective for a wide range of illnesses as well as for allergies and hay fever.· He was, however, often racked by asthma and suffered much from hay fever.· The Liberal set-back in 1895 cost him his seat, and his chronic hay fever directed him to an urban constituency.· Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be.
· By the time the star is sighted, octave passages have taken over and the excitement reaches fever pitch.· The challenges to her credibility are reaching fever pitch and are putting the first lady and her allies on the defensive.· Speculation about the deportations have reached fever pitch in Hong Kong.· Excitement grew to a fever pitch.· The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch, now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.· In 1989, an 11-year-old girl was killed by two Rotties and public terror reached fever pitch.· The crowd was getting to a fever pitch of excitement, Will among them.· But as the game's tempo reached fever pitch, Saunders squandered a golden opportunity to grab an equaliser.
VERB· In the morning we discovered that she had caught a fever, as a result of getting wet.· Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too, and died within a few days of each other.· The normally tranquil town of Reading had caught murder fever.· But Will caught a fever and then rode home through the cold spring rain.
· This virus causes glandular fever and is also associated with a human cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma.· After a few days it may go on to their chest or settle in the liver causing a bilious fever and even jaundice.
· He contracted glandular fever and viral meningitis.· She contracted rheumatic fever at the age of ten.
· Exactly a year later Chlothar himself died of fever at Compiègne.· Another daughter, Elizabeth, died of fever at age two in 1764 and was buried in the Negro cemetery alongside Nina.· Three weeks later Lavender had died of puerperal fever, but long before that Legh had come to his senses.· She died after days of fever and agony, the first known victim of the Hyde Amendment.· She died of typhus fever in the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary, 19 February 1868.· Two years later she applied to nurse in the Boer War and died from typhoid fever at Simonstown, aged 37.· Three years after he wrote this letter, Jeremy Taylor died of a fever in his diocese at the age of fifty-four.· In 1783 their baby daughter, Ann, died of a fever and William himself became critically ill.
· Speculation about the deportations have reached fever pitch in Hong Kong.· The challenges to her credibility are reaching fever pitch and are putting the first lady and her allies on the defensive.· The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch, now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.· In 1989, an 11-year-old girl was killed by two Rotties and public terror reached fever pitch.· Public support for the system was waning steadily as accusations of sleaze in high places reached fever pitch.
· She wasn't tipsy, just a little high, probably running a fever.· I ran a constant low fever waiting for my ride to come and take me away to something finer.· Children sneezed and cried and ran about in a fever.· He felt as if he were running a high fever.· Lice are very temperature-sensitive and will leave a body which is running a fever.
· He was, however, often racked by asthma and suffered much from hay fever.· However, on the plus side, they're non-allergenic so ideal if you suffer from hay fever.· The victim suffers from fever, headaches and muscular pains.· Eachuinn Odhar suffered a week of fever before he came to his senses.· His health was excellent; only for the last four years of his life did he suffer from intermittent fever.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[countable, uncountable] an illness or a medical condition in which you have a very high temperature: - By the time the star is sighted, octave passages have taken over and the excitement reaches fever pitch.
- Excitement grew to a fever pitch.
- Her legs trembled as his strokes of desire on her thighs crazed her need to fever pitch.
- In 1989, an 11-year-old girl was killed by two Rotties and public terror reached fever pitch.
- Speculation about the deportations have reached fever pitch in Hong Kong.
- The challenges to her credibility are reaching fever pitch and are putting the first lady and her allies on the defensive.
- The crowd was getting to a fever pitch of excitement, Will among them.
- The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch, now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
- The baby was fussing and running a fever, so I called the doctor.
- By Sunday morning she was running a temperature.
- I think he's running a temperature, and he's off his food.
- Lice are very temperature-sensitive and will leave a body which is running a fever.
- Lips all cracked, glassy eyes, running a temperature.
- Next morning he ran a temperature but insisted on getting up.
- No wonder she was running a temperature!
- Not running a temperature, are you?
- She wasn't tipsy, just a little high, probably running a fever.
Andy has a fever and won’t be coming into work today. I woke up this morning with a fever and an upset stomach. She’s running a fever (=has a fever).a high/low/slight fever The usual symptoms are a pink rash with a slight fever. → hay fever, scarlet fever, yellow fever, glandular fever, rheumatic feverRegisterIn everyday English, people usually use fever to talk about a very high temperature. If someone's temperature is just high, they say that someone has a temperature rather than has a fever:· He stayed home from school because he had a temperature.2[singular] a situation in which many people feel very excited or feel very strongly about somethingfever of a fever of excitement on Wall Streetelection/carnival etc fever (=great interest or excitement about a particular activity or event) Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup.3(at) fever pitch British English if people’s feelings are at fever pitch, they are extremely excited: The nation was at fever pitch in the days leading up to the election. After a night of rioting, tensions in the city reached fever pitch. → cabin fever