"ship fever" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "It was once common in the crowded conditions on ships.",
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      "expansion": "ship fever (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Vector-borne diseases",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 21, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage. What with the ship's surgeon and this other doctor, our only danger will be from drug or pill.\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "A form of typhus fever."
      ],
      "id": "en-ship_fever-en-noun-W72lVvcz",
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          "typhus",
          "typhus"
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          "fever",
          "fever"
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hospital fever"
        },
        {
          "word": "jail fever"
        },
        {
          "word": "putrid fever"
        },
        {
          "word": "ship-fever"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
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  "word": "ship fever"
}

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  "etymology_text": "It was once common in the crowded conditions on ships.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of typhus fever."
      ],
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          "fever",
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      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hospital fever"
    },
    {
      "word": "jail fever"
    },
    {
      "word": "putrid fever"
    },
    {
      "word": "ship-fever"
    }
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  "word": "ship fever"
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