fever

"I have a fever. I think I've the flu."

(medicine) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

scarlet fever

(usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.

an envious fever

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

There is little doubt that while war fever has not gripped Taipei, its economic foundations are being shaken. The stock market rose yesterday, but only because the Government has pumped $1.5 billion (£1 billion) into it after $370 million was drained from banks, and stocks were sold by investors who are worried by the Chinese manoeuvres.

1996 March 15, Jonathan Mirsky, “Taiwan President visits islanders to bolster morale”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, column 3:

On the way back to the mainland the boat passed over a fever of stingrays, and the sight of them through the glass was enough to colour everything else, and outstrip it.

2011, Julianne Schultz, editor, Griffith REVIEW 34: The Annual Fiction Edition:

They move like thoughts, like memory, like a Wes Anderson diorama of earthly delights: lionfish, an albacore, a fever of stingrays—and then like a wound, a sea turtle at eye level.

2020, Lindsay Illich, “sea turtle”, in rile & heave (everything reminds me of you): Poems:

She threw up her hands in excitement and the ball of water flew right into the pathway of the fever of stingrays.

2020, Sarah Elizabeth, Secrets of the Past: Ocean Academy Year 1:

Asian fever

clown fever

white fever

blue fever

(in combination, slang, often derogatory) Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.

en-noun

fever (countable and uncountable, plural fevers)

fevers (plural)
feaver (alternative)
fevre (alternative)

severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome

Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome

hőemelkedés

moderate fever, 36.8–37.8°C or 98.2–100°F

koors

usually in combination: any of various diseases

koors

state of excitement (of a person or people)

From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“fever”) and Old French fievre (“fever”), from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Replaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.


fever

a fevered lip

the white hand of a lady fever thee

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene xiii]:

To put into a fever; to affect with fever.

en-verb

fever (third-person singular simple present fevers, present participle fevering, simple past and past participle fevered)

fevers (present singular third-person)
fevering (participle present)
fevered (participle past)
fevered (past)
feaver (alternative)
fevre (alternative)