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fevered

fevered adjective: affected by a fever; feverish. Also the simple past and past participle of fever.

Adjective

fevered (comparative more fevered, superlative most fevered)

  1. Affected by a fever; feverish.
  2. Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
    • Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman
    • To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.2010, Noam Chomsky, “The Iranian threat”, in Z Magazine, volume 23, number 7

Also used as

fevered is also the simple past and past participle of fever.

Forms of fevered

comparativemore fevered
superlativemost fevered

Origin of fevered

From fever + -ed.

Words formed from fevered

Questions about fevered

What does fevered mean?
Fevered means affected by a fever; feverish.
What part of speech is fevered?
Fevered is an adjective.

Words near fevered in the dictionary

  1. fever-pitched
  2. fever-ridden
  3. fever-swamp
  4. fever-swamps
  5. feverbush
  6. fevered
  7. feveret
  8. fevereth
  9. feverets
  10. feverfew
  11. feverfews

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