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ship fever

ship fever noun: a form of typhus fever.

Noun

ship fever (uncountable)

  1. A form of typhus fever.
    • "No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage. What with the ship's surgeon and this other doctor, our only danger will be from drug or pill."1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 21, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC

Synonyms of ship fever

Forms of ship fever

alternative formship-fever

Origin of ship fever

It was once common in the crowded conditions on ships.

Questions about ship fever

What does ship fever mean?
Ship fever means a form of typhus fever.
What part of speech is ship fever?
Ship fever is a noun.

Words near ship fever in the dictionary

  1. ship broker
  2. ship canal
  3. ship canals
  4. ship chandler
  5. ship chandlers
  6. ship fever
  7. ship fitter
  8. ship fitters
  9. ship in a bottle
  10. ship letter
  11. ship letters

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