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ague

[ay-gyoo] / ˈeɪ gju /
NOUN
shivering
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Added to that, they ague their aircraft are quiet and emissions-free.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022

A century and a half later, malaria — or ague, as it was called — was rampant in the United States, especially on the frontier.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2020

So while Shakespeare had his "canker in the bud", voguish words such as palsy, purge, apoplexy, ague and balm were used by Donne repeatedly to make his work sound cutting-edge.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2012

This too shall pass, when the final games ends; and World Cup fever will again abate into soccer ague.

From Time ● Jul. 10, 2010

The week after Hickey’s hanging, Becky suffered a mild attack of the ague that had befallen so many soldiers.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Political analyst Mr Lawal said the president should appoint the best person for the job, irrespective of their ethnic origin – and agues that this is what Tinubu is doing.

From BBC ● May 26, 2025

Today, winter as well as summer, he bathes his feet in cold water every morning, a regimen he credits with making him impervious to colds and agues.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1763, an English clergyman, Edward Stone, found that willow tea eased the agues of malaria.

From Time Magazine Archive

Epidemical fevers and agues and small-pox are next spoken of: of small-pox, three hundred and twenty had died in Boston, and “children were born full of the distemper.”

From Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. Wheildon

As for colds, catarrhs, fevers, agues, they deserve all they may catch.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat


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