feverous
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- feverously adverb
- nonfeverous adjective
- nonfeverously adverb
Etymology
Origin of feverous
Example Sentences
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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is taking home a gold medal in the Paris Olympic Games, defeating China’s Yang Liu in the welterweight category after feverous attacks on her gender.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2024
It was a 6-on-4 for the Rangers, whose feverous push to force overtime wouldn’t be denied.
From Washington Post • May 8, 2012
Now a feverous heat flushed her face, white a moment before, when we came in; but she did not turn away her eyes,--they seemed fixed, out of her control.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various
Let thy lone innocence then quickly null Within our veins doubt-led and wrong desire— Or drugging knowledge that but fills o'erfull Of feverous mystery the days we drain!
From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young
Shall then the virtuous disobey Hosts of an aged king and sire, Though feverous joy that father sway, Or senseless love or causeless ire?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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