Definition of fever

"fever" in the noun sense

1. fever, febrility, febricity, pyrexia, feverishness

a rise in the temperature of the body frequently a symptom of infection

2. fever

intense nervous anticipation

"in a fever of resentment"

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Quotations for fever

Feed a cold and starve a fever. [ Proverb ]

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason. [ Victor Hugo ]

Grain of glory mixt with humbleness
Cures both a fever and lethargicness. [ Herbert ]

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Anger is the fever and frenzy of the soul. [ Proverb ]

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is no advantage for a man in a fever to change his bed. [ Proverb ]

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts. [ Mrs. Campbell Praed ]

Love is a fever, of which the delirium is to believe itself eternal. [ Mme. Cottin ]

Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever and rage to anger. [ Voltaire ]

He that tempts me to drink beyond my measure, civilly invites me to a fever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes us feel that we have grasped an immortality. [ Joaquin Miller ]

O, be sick, great greatness, and bid thy ceremony give thee cure! Thinkest thou the fiery fever will go out with titles blown from adulation? [ William Shakespeare ]

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life. [ Willmott ]

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse - a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. [ Colton ]

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! [ Thackeray ]

After the fever of life - after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding - after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death - at length the white throne of God - at length the beatific vision. [ Newman ]

fever in Scrabble®

The word fever is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fever:

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fever in Words With Friends™

The word fever is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters fever:

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Words within the letters of fever

2 letter words in fever (2 words)

3 letter words in fever (5 words)

4 letter words in fever (4 words)

5 letter words in fever (1 word)

fever + 1 blank (1 word)

fever + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence fever

Words with fever in them (2 words)

Words that end with fever (3 words)

Word Growth involving fever

Shorter words in fever

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Longer words containing fever

feverberries

feverberry

fevered

feverfew feverfews

feverish feverishly

feverish feverishness

feverless

feverproducing

fevers hayfevers

feverwort feverworts

hayfever hayfevers

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