fever-ridden

Adjective

fever-ridden (comparative more fever-ridden, superlative most fever-ridden)

1. Experiencing an epidemic of one of the diseases known as fever (such as yellow fever).
   • […] it was but shortly after he had returned from fever-ridden Santiago, when in the hospital at Montauk Point, that the much-coveted document, making him an officer in the United States Army, reached him.1900, Ira L. Reeves, Bamboo Tales, Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing, Chapter , pp. 135-136
   • Rain and illness turn the camp into a fever-ridden mudbath.2007, Giles Foden, “The brio of Ali Banana” (review of Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele, The Guardian, 2 June, 2007
2. Harbouring the virus that causes one of the diseases known as fever.
   • Twenty long years in that fever-ridden swamp, all day at work under the mangrove-tree, all night chained up in the filthy convict-huts, bitten by mosquitoes, racked with ague, […]1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 225
   • […] the diamond mine was six and a half hours’ walk through fever-ridden jungle, fraught with hazards from wild animals […]1957, Ian Fleming, chapter 7, in The Diamond Smugglers, London: Jonathan Cape
3. Suffering from fever.
   • The State posts were “clearings,” less than one hundred yards square, cut out of the jungle. Sometimes only black men were in charge, but as a rule the chef de poste was a lonely, fever-ridden white, whose only interest in our arrival was his hope that we might spare him quinine.1907, Richard Harding Davis, chapter 3, in The Congo and Coasts of Africa, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 89
   • Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished.1936 September 14, “Abscess Abolished”, in Time, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2013