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View definitions for feverish

feverish

adjective as in having a high temperature

adjective as in excited, agitated

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Example Sentences

Audiard pushes them all into a type of feverish, Almodovar-adjacent melodrama that suits his instinct for sensorial cinema.

Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before.

From Salon

The resulting show is described as "a feverish new live experience, fusing theatre, music and movement".

From BBC

Thus it was that during the crucial period when Hitler was mainly operating by diplomatic bluff and intimidation and did not — yet — possess the military force to fully back up his threats, Lindbergh’s pronouncements had the pernicious effect of leading the Western powers toward submitting to Hitler’s demands at a time when the cost of resistance would have been significantly less than in September 1939, after a year of feverish German rearmament.

From Salon

Spurs started the day with high hopes but an early feverish atmosphere was eventually subdued, with almost a sense of inevitability that Arsenal would inflict familiar pain, as they duly did.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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