Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a fever or the symptoms associated with a fever.
- adjective Characterized by intense activity or agitation; feverish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Suffering from fever; feverish; hence, heated; perturbed; disordered: as, a fevered imagination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Highly excited.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Affected by a
fever ;feverish . - adjective
heated ,impassioned
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective highly excited
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Examples
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A more open market for college admissions, no matter how fevered, is still fairer than the old system, which petered out in the mid-1960s, whereby Exeter's headmaster could earmark a few dozen of each year's seniors for admission to Harvard.
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A more open market for college admissions, no matter how fevered, is still fairer than the old system, which petered out in the mid-1960s, whereby Exeter's headmaster could earmark a few dozen of each year's seniors for admission to Harvard.
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"Pathetic," he called the fevered satisfaction she took in the hovering attentions of our old black nurse, who gave us brief respites in the two sick-rooms by turns, and who had according to Mrs. Fontenette, "such a beautiful faith!"
Strong Hearts George Washington Cable 1884
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I will take steps to learn my way around Seattle better, so that I don't feel trapped indoors/stir crazy/cabin fevered.
Happy New Year! graphxgrrl 2007
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I just can't remember any who've shown an "eye" or a shooting style that I would call fevered or amped-up and
Hollywood Elsewhere 2009
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Each new record is greeted with the kind of fevered hope and fear and anticipation unique to those cult bands who are truly adored: Will it be too populist?
Love, Belle and Sebastian-style Laura Barton 2010
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The rise of the viral right here has fostered the same kind of fevered imaginings.
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The rise of the viral right here has fostered the same kind of fevered imaginings.
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Is the film some kind of fevered dream taking place in Bill's sexually frustrated mind?
Films I Love #14: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999) Ed Howard 2009
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But we -- I mean, I think that they must leak a certain amount in order to build up that kind of fevered (ph) anticipation.
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