feverish
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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.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Her take is a maelstrom of splendid beauty and doomed love, colliding at a feverish pace that makes the fidelity to Brontë’s book moot.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
Neither lack for words, as they run through their grievance-filled monologues with a feverish mix of guilt and fury.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
The final round had both swinging for the rafters and the crowd rose to their feet in feverish anticipation.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
Mattie and Fern were ashen heaps, feverish on the floor.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Vocabulary lists containing feverish
"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
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The Suffix -ish, Part 3
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