fever

Meanings

Noun

• A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
• Any of various diseases.
• A state of excitement or anxiety.
• A group of stingrays.

Verb

• To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
• To become fevered.

Related

Similar words

• : high temperature, pyrexia (medical term), temperature
• : excitation, excitement, passion

Narrower meaning words

• abortus fever
• absorption fever
• acclimating fever
• Aden fever
• adynamic fever
• aestivoautumnal fever
• African Coast 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
• black fever
• black fly fever
• blackwater fever
• blue fever
• bouquet fever
• boutonneuse fever
• bovine epizootic fever
• brain fever
• brass founder's fever
• brassfounder's fever
• Brazilian purpuric fever
• breakbone fever
• buck fever
• Bullis fever
• bullous fever
• Bunyamwera fever
• Burdwan fever
• Bwamba fever
• cabin fever
• cachectic fever
• cachexial fever
• camp fever
• cane-cutter fever
• canefield fever
• cane-field fever
• canicola fever
• Cape Horn fever
• Carrión's fever
• Carter's fever
• cat fever
• catarrhal fever
• cat-bite fever
• catheter fever
• cat-scratch fever
• central fever
• cerebrospinal fever
• cerebro-spinal fever
• Chagres fever
• channel fever
• Charcot's fever
• chikungunya fever
• childbed fever
• childbirth fever
• Choix fever
• congestive fever
• Congo red fever
• Congolian red fever
• continued fever
• continuous fever
• cotton fever
• cotton-mill fever
• country fever
• Crimean fever
• Cyprus fever
• en
• dandy fever
• date 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
• English fever
• enteric fever
• entericoid fever
• entrance fever
• ephemeral fever
• epimastical fever
• eruptive fever
• essential fever
• estivoautumnal fever
• exanthematous fever
• exsiccation fever
• falciparum fever
• familial Hibernian fever
• familial periodic fever
• famine fever
• farrowing fever
• fatigue fever
• field fever
• five-day fever
• flood fever
• fog fever
• food fever
• Fort Bragg fever
• foundryman's fever
• Gambian fever
• gaol fever
• gastric fever
• Gibraltar fever
• glandular fever
• gold fever
• grain fever
• green fever
• haematuric bilious fever
• haemoglobinuric fever
• haemorrhagic fever
• Hankow fever
• harvest fever
• Hasami fever
• Haverhill fever
• hay fever
• hectic fever
• hematuric bilious fever
• hemoglobinuric fever
• hemorrhagic fever
• hempen fever
• hepatic intermittent fever
• herpetic fever
• horse sickness fever
• hospital fever
• humidifier fever
• Ilheus fever
• inanition fever
• induced fever
• inflammatory fever
• intermittent fever
• inundation fever
• island fever
• Jaccoud's dissociated fever
• jail fever
• Japanese flood fever
• Japanese river 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
• laurel fever
• Lazaret fever
• lechuguilla fever
• Lombard fever
• Lone Star fever
• lung fever
• malarial fever
• malignant tertian fever
• Malta fever
• Manchurian fever
• Marseilles 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
• 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
• o'nyong-nyong fever
• Oropouche fever
• Oroya 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
• pharyngoconjunctival fever
• phlebotomus 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 typhus
• prison fever
• protein fever
• puerperal fever
• puking fever
• purple fever
• putrid fever
• Pym fever
• Pym's fever
• pyogenic fever
• Q fever
• query fever
• rabbit fever
• ratbite fever
• rat-bite fever
• recrudescent typhus fever
• recurrent fever
• recurring fever
• red fever
• redwater fever
• relapsing fever
• remittent fever
• rheumatic fever
• Rhodesian fever
• rice-field fever
• Rock fever
• rock fever
• Roman fever
• rose fever
• Ross River fever
• rotanny fever
• run a fever
• sakushu fever
• Salinem fever
• salt fever
• sandfly fever
• sand-fly fever
• Santa Marta 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
• shipping fever
• shoddy fever
• Sindbis fever
• slime fever
• slow fever
• smelter's fever
• snail fever
• solar fever
• Songo fever
• spelter's fever
• spirillary fever
• spirillum fever
• splenic fever
• spotted fever
• spottled fever
• spring fever
• steroid fever
• sthenic fever
• stockyards 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
• three-day fever
• threshing fever
• tick fever
• tick-bite fever
• tick-borne 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
• yellow fever
• Zika fever
• zinc fume fever

Origin

• From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor, from Latin febris ("a fever"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- ("to burn"). Replaced native Old English hriþ ("fever"). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.