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# feverish

«feverish» in Mova's school dictionary: **having a fever, with a high body temperature, feeling…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (feverish, more feverish); adverb feverishly

### meaning for a pupil

1) Feverish means having a fever, with a high body temperature, feeling hot, shivery and unwell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feverish/#m1)

2) Feverish also means very fast, excited and nervous, as in feverish activity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feverish/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Health lessons and everyday illness (rest, drink water, tell an adult; normal temperature is about 37 °C). In stories: feverish dreams, or working feverishly before a deadline. Phrases: feel feverish, feverish dreams, work feverishly, feverish excitement.

### examples

- I felt feverish and Mum took my temperature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feverish/#x1)
- The feverish child slept all afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feverish/#x2)
- He had strange feverish dreams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feverish/#x3)
- The builders worked feverishly to finish before the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feverish/#x4)
- There was feverish excitement before the final. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feverish/#x5)
- She searched feverishly for her lost ticket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feverish/#x6)
- In the morning, when light came, the gazelle was sick in its stomach and feverish, and its legs ached. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feverish/#x7)

### note

A fever is usually 38 °C or above. Feverishly (adverb) is mostly the second meaning: in a rush. Do not take medicine without an adult.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «feverish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feverish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.