feverish
Example Sentences
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The week started with feverish excitement as thousands of Irish fans - most of whom didn't have a ticket to the game - descended on Prague.
From BBC
Before his senior year, he could become the centerpiece of a feverish bidding war between blue blood programs.
She still had received no examination or medicine of any kind and her forehead felt feverish to my touch.
From Literature
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But he didn’t have the expressive variety to make the horror of Hercules’ death scene match lines like “Along my feverish veins, like liquid fire, the subtle poison hastes.”
Most of the crew were seriously ill or injured: swollen legs, missing digits, labored breathing, feverish.
From Literature
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