单词 | fevered |
释义 | fevered From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Illness & disabilityfeveredfe‧vered /ˈfiːvəd $ -ərd/ adjective [only before noun] literary1 EXCITEDWORRIEDextremely excited or worried SYN feverish the child’s fevered cries2 MIsuffering from a fever SYN feverishfevered brow (=a hot forehead caused by a fever) his 3 → a fevered imagination/mind/brainExamples from the Corpusfevered• If the building is rented, there is little opportunity for practical work except for some fevered activity on Sunday.• Cold realisation of what she was doing swamped her fevered body.• We soothed fevered brows with cool hands and shooed away demons with a look.• Security kept the band's fevered fans away from the stage.• Each fevered quest for a true love left me more adrift than ever.• Periodically one of us dropped into a fevered sleep.fevered brow• She smoothed the child's fevered brow.• Oh, well, this won't soothe any fevered brows.• We soothed fevered brows with cool hands and shooed away demons with a look. |
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