Fever

Noun

 * 1) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
 * 2) in combination with one or more preceding words Any of various diseases.
 * 3) A state of excitement (of a person or people).
 * 4) A group of stingrays.

Adjectives for Fever
contagious; eruptive; ravenous; rheumatic; cruel; irregular; low; violent; fitful; prevalent; swamp; intermittent; bilioui; high; malignant; unhallowed; infectious; splenic; rapid; raging; morbid; gnawing', malarial; typhus; envious; puerperal; riotous; obvious; tortured; lurking; deadly; perpetual; acute; childbed; hunting; burning; inflammatory; slow.

Verbs for Fever
accompany by —; allay —; attend with —; characterize by —; come down with —; contract —; control —; develop —; heighten—; induce —; predispose to —; reduce —; retard —; transmit —; — burns; — consumes; — continues; — devours; — grips; — heats; — infects; — persists; — rages; — smoulders; — subdues.

Synonyms for Fever

 * : high temperature, pyrexia (medical term), temperature
 * : excitation, excitement, passion
 * heat, ardor, fire, agitation, mania, frenzy, delirium, disease

Antonyms for Fever
calmness, coolness, health.

Derived terms

 * abortus fever
 * absorption fever
 * acclimating fever
 * Aden fever
 * adynamic fever
 * aestivoautumnal fever, estivoautumnal fever
 * African Coast fever
 * African haemorrhagic fever, African hemorrhagic fever
 * algid pernicious fever
 * aphthous fever
 * ardent fever
 * arthropod-borne fever
 * artificial fever
 * aseptic fever
 * Assam fever
 * ataxic fever
 * autumn fever
 * barrel fever
 * Bay fever
 * beaver fever
 * benign tertian fever
 * biduoterian fever
 * biliary fever
 * bilious fever
 * bilious remittent fever
 * black fever
 * black fly fever
 * blackwater fever
 * blue fever
 * bouquet fever
 * boutonneuse fever
 * bovine ephemeral fever
 * bovine epizootic fever
 * bovine infectious petechial fever
 * bovine malignant catarrhal fever
 * bovine petechial fever
 * brain fever, brain-fever
 * brass founder's fever, brassfounder's fever
 * Brazilian purpuric fever
 * breakbone fever
 * buck fever, buck-fever
 * Bullis fever
 * bullous fever
 * Bunyamwera fever
 * Burdwan fever
 * Bwamba fever
 * cabin fever
 * cachectic fever, cachexial fever
 * California valley fever
 * camp fever, camp-fever
 * cane-cutter fever
 * cane-field fever, canefield fever
 * canicola fever
 * Cape Horn fever
 * Carrión's fever
 * Carter's fever
 * cat-bite fever
 * catarrhal fever
 * cat fever
 * catheter fever
 * cat scratch fever, cat-scratch fever
 * central fever
 * cerebro-spinal fever, cerebrospinal fever
 * Chagres fever
 * channel fever
 * Charcot intermittent fever, Charcot's intermittent fever
 * Charcot's fever
 * chikungunya fever
 * childbed fever
 * childbirth fever
 * Choix fever
 * congestive fever
 * Congolian red fever
 * Congo red fever
 * continued fever, continuous fever
 * cotton fever
 * cotton-mill fever
 * country fever
 * Crimean fever
 * Cyprus fever
 * dance fever
 * dandy fever, dandy-fever
 * date fever
 * day-fever
 * deer fly fever, deer-fly fever
 * dehydration fever
 * dengue fever
 * desert fever
 * diary fever
 * digestive fever
 * diphasic milk fever
 * disfever
 * dock fever
 * double quotidian fever
 * drug fever
 * duck fever
 * dumdum fever
 * Dutch type periodic fever
 * East Coast fever
 * Ebola fever


 * Ebola virus fever
 * elephantoid fever
 * Elokomin fluke fever
 * enfever
 * enteric fever
 * entericoid fever
 * entrance fever
 * ephemeral fever
 * epimastical fever
 * eruptive fever
 * essential fever


 * exanthematous fever
 * exsiccation fever
 * falciparum fever
 * familial Hibernian fever
 * familial periodic fever
 * famine fever
 * farrowing fever
 * fatigue fever
 * feed a cold, starve a fever
 * feverable
 * fever ague
 * fever and ague
 * fever-bark
 * fever blister, fever-blister
 * fever bush, feverbush
 * fever-chart
 * fever-cooling
 * fevered
 * feveress
 * feveret


 * fever-fly
 * fever grass
 * fever-heat
 * fever-hectic
 * feverish
 * feverite
 * fever lent
 * feverless
 * fever-lurdan, fever-lurgan
 * fever-lurden
 * fever-lurk
 * feverly
 * fever-nut
 * fever of unknown origin
 * feverous
 * fever pitch
 * fever powder, fever-powder
 * fever ring
 * Fever River
 * fever root, fever-root
 * fever-sick
 * fever sore, fever-sore
 * fever therapy
 * fever thermometer
 * fever-trap
 * fever treatment
 * fever tree, fever-tree
 * fever twig, fever-twig
 * fever-weakened
 * fever-weed
 * fever-wood
 * fever-wort, feverwort
 * fevery
 * field fever
 * five-day fever
 * flood fever
 * fog fever
 * Fort Bragg fever
 * food fever
 * Fort Bragg fever
 * Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever, Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome
 * foundryman's fever
 * Gambian fever
 * gaol fever, gaol-fever
 * gastric fever
 * gastric remittent fever
 * Gibraltar fever
 * glandular fever
 * gold fever, gold-fever
 * grain fever
 * green fever
 * haematuric bilious fever, hematuric bilious fever
 * haemoglobinuric fever, hemoglobinuric fever
 * haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever
 * Hankow fever
 * harvest fever
 * Hasami fever
 * Haverhill fever
 * hay fever, hay-fever
 * hectic fever


 * hempen fever
 * hepatic intermittent fever
 * herpetic fever
 * horse sickness fever
 * hospital fever
 * humidifier fever
 * icterohaemorrhagic fever, icterohemorrhagic fever
 * Ilheus fever
 * inanition fever
 * induced fever
 * inflammatory fever


 * intermittent fever
 * inundation fever
 * island fever
 * Jaccoud's dissociated fever
 * jail-fever, jail fever
 * Japanese flood fever
 * Japanese river fever
 * jungle fever, jungle-fever
 * jungle yellow fever
 * Junin fever
 * Katayama fever
 * Kedani fever
 * Kenya fever
 * Kew Gardens fever
 * Kinkiang fever
 * Korin fever
 * Lábrea fever, Lábrea's black fever
 * land fever
 * Lassa fever
 * Lassa haemorrhagic fever, Lassa hemorrhagic fever
 * laurel fever
 * Lazaret fever
 * lechuguilla fever
 * Lombard fever
 * Lone Star fever
 * lung fever
 * malarial fever
 * malignant catarrhal fever
 * malignant tertian fever
 * Malta fever
 * Manchurian fever
 * Marseilles fever
 * marsh fever, marsh-fever
 * Mediterranean coast fever
 * Mediterranean erythematous fever
 * Mediterranean exanthematous fever
 * Mediterranean fever
 * meningotyphoid fever
 * metal fume fever
 * Meuse fever
 * Mexican fever
 * Mianeh fever
 * miliary fever
 * milk fever, milk-fever
 * mill fever
 * Monday fever
 * monoleptic fever
 * Mossman fever
 * mountain fever
 * mud fever
 * mumu fever
 * Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever
 * Murchison-Sanderson fever
 * nanukayami fever
 * Neapolitan fever
 * nervous fever
 * nine mile fever
 * nodal fever
 * Ohio River Valley fever
 * o'nyong-nyong fever
 * Oropouche fever
 * Oroya fever
 * Pahvant Valley fever
 * paludal fever
 * papataci fever, papatasi fever, pappataci fever
 * papular fever
 * paratyphoid fever
 * parenteric fever
 * parrot fever
 * parturient fever
 * Pel-Ebstein fever
 * periodic fever
 * petechial fever
 * Pfeiffer's glandular fever
 * pharyngoconjunctival fever
 * phlebotomus fever
 * pink-fever
 * pinta fever
 * pituitous fever
 * polka fever
 * polyleptic fever
 * polymer fume fever
 * Pomona fever
 * Pontiac fever
 * Potomac fever
 * Potomac horse fever
 * pretibial fever
 * prison fever, prison-fever
 * prison fever typhus
 * protein fever
 * puerperal fever
 * puking fever
 * purple fever
 * putrid fever
 * Pym fever, Pym's fever
 * pyogenic fever
 * Q fever
 * query fever
 * rabbit fever
 * rat-bite fever, ratbite fever
 * recrudescent typhus fever
 * recurrent fever


 * recurring fever
 * red fever
 * redwater fever
 * relapsing fever
 * remittent fever
 * rheumatic fever
 * Rhodesian fever, Rhodesian redwater fever
 * rice-field fever
 * Rift Valley fever
 * Rock fever, rock fever
 * Rocky Mountain fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever
 * Roman fever
 * rose fever, rose-fever
 * Ross River fever
 * rotanny fever
 * run a fever
 * sakushu fever
 * Salinem fever
 * salt fever
 * sand-fly fever, sandfly fever
 * San Joaquin fever, San Joaquin Valley fever
 * Santa Marta fever
 * Sao Paulo fever, São Paulo fever
 * scarlet fever
 * Schamberg fever
 * Schottmüller's fever
 * secondary fever
 * Sennetsu fever
 * septic fever
 * Shar Pei fever
 * shin bone fever
 * ship fever, ship-fever
 * shipping fever
 * shoddy fever
 * Sindbis fever
 * slime fever
 * slow fever
 * smelter's fever
 * snail fever
 * solar fever
 * Songo fever
 * South African tick-bite fever, South African tickbite fever
 * spelter's fever
 * spirillary fever
 * spirillum fever
 * splenic fever
 * spotted fever
 * spottled fever
 * spring fever
 * sthenic fever
 * stockyards fever
 * steroid fever
 * stranger's fever
 * streptobacillary fever
 * summer fever
 * sun fever
 * suppurative fever
 * surgical fever
 * swamp fever
 * swine fever
 * symptomatic fever
 * syphilitic fever
 * Texas cattle fever, Texas fever
 * therapeutic fever
 * thermic fever
 * thirst fever
 * threshing fever
 * tick-bite fever
 * tick-borne fever
 * tick fever
 * Tobia fever
 * traumatic fever
 * trench fever
 * trypanosome fever
 * tsutsugamushi fever
 * typhoid fever
 * typhus fever
 * undifferentiated type fever
 * undulant fever
 * undulating fever
 * upgrade fever
 * urethral fever
 * urinary fever
 * urticarial fever
 * uveoparotid fever
 * valley fever
 * verruga fever
 * vivax fever
 * war fever
 * Wesselsbron fever
 * West African fever
 * West Nile fever
 * Whitmore's fever
 * winter fever
 * Wolhynia fever
 * womb fever
 * worm fever
 * wound fever
 * Yangtze Valley fever
 * yellow fever
 * Zika fever
 * zinc fume fever

Related terms

 * fervent
 * fervid
 * fervor

Thesaurus
attack, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, blood heat, bluster, bobbery, body heat, boil, boiling, brouhaha, burning, bustle, cachexia, cachexy, calenture, calidity, caloric, childbed fever, chill, chills, churn, coal heat, colic, commotion, constipation, continued fever, conturbation, convected heat, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, delirium, diarrhea, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, ebullition, edema, electric heat, emaciation, embroilment, eruptive fever, excitement, fainting, fatigue, febricity, febrility, ferment, fermentation, fever heat, fever of excitement, feverishness, fibrillation, fidgets, fire, fit, flap, flurry, flush, fluster, flutteration, flux, foment, frenzy, fume, furor, fury, fuss, gas heat, growth, heat, heatedness, heating, hectic, hectic fever, hectic flush, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hot-air heat, hotness, hubbub, hurly-burly, hydrops, hyperpyrexia, hypertension, hyperthermia, hypotension, hypothermia, icterus, incalescence, indigestion, induction heat, inflammation, inquietude, insomnia, intermittent fever, itching, jaundice, jitters, jumpiness, labored breathing, low blood pressure, lumbago, maelstrom, malaise, marasmus, moil, molecular heat, murderous insanity, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, oil heat, pain, paralysis, paroxysm, perturbation, protein fever, pruritus, psychokinesia, puerperal fever, pyrexia, radiant heat, rage, rash, relapsing fever, remittent, remittent fever, restlessness, rheum, roil, rout, row, rut, sclerosis, seethe, seething, seizure, sexual excitement, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, solar heat, sore, spasm, steam heat, stir, superheat, superheatedness, swirl, tabes, tachycardia, thermal radiation, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumor, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, ultraviolet heat, unease, unrest, upset, upset stomach, urethral fever, vaccinal fever, vertigo, vomiting, warmness, warmth, wasting, water fever, wound fever

Etymology
< <  fievre:, reinforced by native  fefor: <  febris: < ferveo:; or perhaps literally 'a trembling', akin to Greek φέβεσθαι:, φόβος:.

Translations

 * Arabic: حمة, حمى
 * Armenian: տենդ, ,
 * Catalan: febre
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 * Mandarin:, (verb; "to have a fever")
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: febro
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 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: akãnundu
 * Hindi: बुख़ार
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: febre
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 열, 열병, 熱病
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ta, tasar , tagerm
 * Sorani:


 * Lao: ໄຂ້
 * Latin:
 * Navajo:
 * Nepali: ज्वरो
 * Norwegian:
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 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: (при болезни),
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian: idpa
 * Swahili: homa (class 9/10)
 * Swedish: feber
 * Thai: ไข้
 * Urdu: بخار
 * Vietnamese: cơn sốt
 * Volapük: fif
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian: տենդ
 * Greek:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: feber


 * Armenian: հուզմունք
 * Greek:, έξαψη
 * Norwegian:


 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: feber