单词 | fevered |
释义 | feveredadj. 1. Having or showing symptoms associated with a very high body temperature; (of a symptom) caused by a very high body temperature.Frequently collocated with brow. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > affected with feveryOE feverousa1398 febricitant1599 mumpsick1599 fevered1605 febrient1651 febrile1651 feverish1680 febriculose1884 enfevered1893 1605 S. Garey Two Treat. i. 4 Christ is all things to vs, if thou beest hungry, he is bread,..if thou beest blind he is the light, hee is the health of a feauered soule. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxxiv. sig. Z A feavered Body; a boyling Stomacke. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Theodore & Honoria in Fables 270 Her Blood all Fever'd. 1793 J. Cosens Serm. Useful Subj. I. xi. 300 His fevered Body cast on the solitary bed of sickness, he comes to himself at last. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 257 He lifted his fevered face to heaven. 1843 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life I. xiv. 204 A gale of heaven fanned his fevered brow. 1874 M. G. Tytler Evan Lindsay i. 19 I became insensible; and, for days after, raved in all the wildness of fevered delirium. 1942 Life 22 June 48/3 For Veronica, the paradox, can cool the fevered brow of a sick man with one stroke and with another stroke produce a fever in a well man. 1982 N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 31/1 She pulls silks and linens over her damp, fevered body. 2003 Vanity Fair Aug. 191/3 Writers..will recognize that odd state he must have entered, a numb reverie not unlike the fevered sweats Keats endured from consumption. 2. Of a mental faculty or emotion: overwrought, overexcited. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > nervously excited or agitated high-wrought1579 feverous1587 tremulous1611 feverish1637 overwound1640 gestient1644 overwrought1648 twittering1648 fevereda1657 tumultuous1667 wrought-up1688 flustered1743 trepidatinga1774 flurried1775 wrought1778 riled1825 tête montée1825 worked up1831 tumultuating1854 trepidant1891 tremorous1897 wroughted1905 goosy1906 hotted-up1923 steamed1923 spooky1926 antsy-pantsy1944 antsy1950 agitato1964 amped1967 wired1970 a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) IV. 214 For Feavered Minds, who..find noe Ease. 1755 M. Masters Familiar Lett. & Poems 245 Physic, whose healing Drugs remove, All Pangs but those of fever'd Love. 1786 L. Peacock Rambles of Fancy I. 39 Ten thousand frantic views Of horrid rivals..tortured my fevered imagination. 1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 239 Her attempt to guide or crush the..fevered spirits of the time. 1890 Universal Rev. May 84 My fevered mood fell from me. 1916 Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 807 The world which he evokes is rather the hectic product of the journalist's fevered brain than the patiently and steadily evolved organism of the historian. 1976 H. M. Sachar Hist. Israel 154 The spirit..was one rather of fevered anguish, of despair mingled with a bitter and cynical hope. 2010 Church Times 8 Jan. 27/4 Does the whole drama exist only in the governess's fevered imagination? 3. a. Characterized by strong emotion; fervent, impassioned, intense. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > characterized by passion passionalc1443 passionatea1586 pathetical1596 compassionful1604 pathetic1648 fevered1744 inflammatory1874 full-hearted1876 Latin1914 1744 W. Havard Regulus iii. i. 28 Their fever'd Shout Was Liberty. 1835 L. H. H. Sigourney Zinzendorff 225 They who run Ambition's race, and on their compeers tread With fever'd eagerness to grasp the goal. 1886 C. Bell tr. L. Tolstoy War & Peace II. x. 80 He even repented of the fevered zeal which had brought him home so rapidly. 1931 Atlantic (Iowa) New-Tel. 31 Mar. 2/5 Chance, lottery, playing the stock market, or whatever you may care to call it, is always accompanied by fevered excitement. 1965 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 3 Sept. 7/6 This started a fevered protest. 2009 S. James Secret Diaries Charlotte Brontë iii. 52 I went about my household duties in a sort of fog, listening with fevered anticipation for the approaching footsteps of the postman. b. Characterized by intense activity; busy, hectic, frantic. ΚΠ 1839 Ess. Crit. & Misc. ii. vii. 190 Ambition may claim the fevered exertions of a few, who gain a dearly purchased success. 1890 Goshen (Indiana) Daily News 9 Aug. Fevered work, flurried work, anxious work, restless work, is always bad work. 1920 Auk 37 510 For him the fevered activity of modern life held no attraction. 1965 V. B. Carter W. Churchill vi. 32 The last two days at home were spent in fevered preparation. 2000 Islands Dec. 132/1 The sidewalks crawl with tourists who've been coughed out of jumbo cruise ships for a day of fevered shopping. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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