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fevered

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fe·ver  (fvr)
n.
1.
a. Abnormally high body temperature.
b. Any of various diseases characterized by abnormally high body temperature.
2.
a. A condition of heightened activity or excitement: a fever of anticipation.
b. A contagious, usually short-lived enthusiasm or craze: disco fever.
v. fe·vered, fe·ver·ing, fe·vers
v.tr.
To effect fever in.
v.intr.
To be or become feverish.
[Middle English, from Old English fefor and from Old French fievre, both from Latin febris.]
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Adj.1.fevered - highly excited; "a fevered imagination"
excited - in an aroused state
fevered
adjective 1. frantic, excited, desperate, distracted, frenzied, impatient, obsessive, restless, agitated, frenetic, overwrought


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We boys were all shelling peas, but the story, as it went on, rapt us from the poor employ, and whatever our fingers were doing, our spirits were away in that strange land of adventures and mishaps, where the fevered life of the knight truly without fear and without reproach burned itself out.
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He turned to me again his little beautiful fevered face.
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It was not fear, it was not ardour--it was a compound of both, a new and deeply energetic impulse, that with its first emotion chilled and astounded, then fevered and maddened his mind.
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