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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

Don’t come straggling into the office one morning muttering, “First, gout. Now ague, biliousness, lumbago, Saint Vitus’s dance and dropsy. What’s next, apoplexy?”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2019

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

His legs trembled in an ague, and his eyes closed against the biting cloud.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

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

In low marshy situations, the introduction of that manufacture has prevented more rheumatisms, colds, and agues, than all the medicines ever used there.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

And he would drain Menham marsh, and then the Menham people would not have agues and goitres.

From Notwithstanding by Mary Cholmondeley




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