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View synonyms for fever pitch

fever pitch

noun

  1. a high degree of excitement, as of a gathering of people:

    The announcement of victory brought the crowd to fever pitch.



fever pitch

noun

  1. a state of intense excitement

    things were at fever pitch with the election coming up

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fever pitch1

First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences

By the beginning of the year, those rumblings reached a fever pitch as the marketing and public relations industry began launching platforms like Publicist, which is geared toward freelancers.

From Digiday

As employee burnout reaches a pandemic-induced fever pitch, more companies are desperately looking for ways to keep staff productive and happy.

From Digiday

Over the past three years gang-related violence has gone from accidental by-products of protests against presidential incompetence to a fever pitch of terrorism and opportunistic crimes by marauding gangsters.

From Time

By Kristina Prokop, CEO and co-founder, EyeotaAs we move deeper into 2021, the desperate search for identity solutions that can smooth marketing organizations’ transitions to a cookieless world is reaching a fever pitch.

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Public lands were in the midst of boom times, in Maryland and across the country, even before pandemic restrictions drove interest in outdoor spaces to a fever pitch.

Now, the exasperation on both sides is reaching a fever pitch.

The civil war has reached a fever pitch and your battalion has recovered eight bodies floating downstream this week alone.

Three years on, the demands for some kind of reparation have reached fever pitch.

Panic about a possible Greek default and euro exit—and the crisis spreading worldwide—is at a fever pitch.

And the country's legendary party scene is at a fever pitch.

Then, indeed, the noble Spanish blood of the audience is aroused to fever pitch.

Public feeling among the drummer-boys rose to fever pitch and the lives of Jakin and Lew became unenviable.

But his cruel insults now quashed despair and roused dormant indignation to fever pitch.

The20 thought of Dorothy raised the girl's state of excitement almost to fever pitch.

This victory would surely damp the enthusiasm of the rebels, and raise that of the loyalists to fever pitch.

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