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brain fever

brain fever noun: encephalitis or meningitis.

Noun

brain fever (countable and uncountable, plural brain fevers)

  1. (dated) encephalitis or meningitis
  2. (dated) A state of hysteria or temporary insanity caused by an emotional shock.
    • We found that the news of the arrival of the packet—for her illness dated from that time—had such an effect upon her as to bring on brain fever.1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

brain fever meaning in Tamil

brain fever in Tamil

மூளைக் காய்ச்சல், மூளைக் காயச்சல்

Forms of brain fever

pluralbrain fevers
alternative formbrain-fever

Words formed from brain fever

Questions about brain fever

What does brain fever mean?
Brain fever means encephalitis or meningitis.
What is brain fever in Tamil?
Brain fever in Tamil is மூளைக் காய்ச்சல், மூளைக் காயச்சல். See Brain fever meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is brain fever?
Brain fever is a noun.
What is the plural of brain fever?
The plural of brain fever is brain fevers.

Words near brain fever in the dictionary

  1. brain fag
  2. brain farm
  3. brain farms
  4. brain fart
  5. brain farts
  6. brain fever
  7. brain fevers
  8. brain fingerprinting
  9. brain fluid
  10. brain fog
  11. brain food

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brain fever (page history and authors); brain fever (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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