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sun-fever

sun-fever is the alternative form of sun fever.

Meaning of sun fever

Noun

sun fever (countable and uncountable, plural sun fevers)

  1. A feverish condition brought on by overheating in the sun; sunstroke.
    • Recently, instances of ictus soils, or solar asphyxia, as it is more correctly called, have been much less frequent; but in the mean time, cases of solar or sun fever have increased rapidly throughout the city.1851, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal - Volume 7, page 264

Forms of sun-fever

pluralsun-fevers

Questions about sun-fever

What is sun-fever the alternative form of?
Sun-fever is the alternative form of sun fever.

Words near sun-fever in the dictionary

  1. sun-drenched
  2. sun-dried
  3. sun-dries
  4. sun-dry
  5. sun-drying
  6. sun-fever
  7. sun-fevers
  8. sun-fruit
  9. sun-glade
  10. sun-glassed
  11. sun-glasses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sun-fever (page history and authors); sun fever (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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