fevered

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English

Etymology

fever +‎ -ed

Adjective

fevered (comparative more fevered, superlative most fevered)

  1. Affected by a fever; feverish.
  2. Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
    • 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman[1]:
      Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
    • 2010, Noam Chomsky, The Iranian threat, Z Magazine, vol 23, number 7:
      To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.

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Verb

fevered

  1. simple past and past participle of fever