feverish

Adjective

feverish (comparative more feverish, superlative most feverish)

1. Having a fever, an elevated body temperature.
   • The illness made him feverish, so they applied cold compresses.
   • People who feel warm or provide a history of feeling feverish may also be determined to have a fever.2020 December 7, Kristen Rogers, “Think your normal temperature is 98.6? Maybe not (and why that’s important)”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2022
2. Filled with excess energy.
   • He worked with feverish excitement.
3. Morbidly eager.
   • a feverish desire to see her again
   • Toward this objective, China's recent three supreme leaders, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and the incumbent Xi Jinping, all embrace such a new security agenda and engage in feverish Xinjiang ethnic pacification and military buildup campaigns, with each of the three leaders having his own landmark event...2018 October 9, Miles Maochun Yu, “China's Final Solution In Xinjiang”, in Hoover Institution, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2019