aguenoun [ U ]
/ˈeɪɡ.juː//ˈeɪɡ.juː/old-fashioneda fever in which your body shakes, especially one caused by malaria
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Fevers & infectious diseases
- burn up
- chlamydia
- dengue
- diphtheria
- Ebola
- EHF
- EVD
- febrile
- feverish
- HBV
- malaria
- notifiable
- pestilence
- plague
- polio
- quarantine
- scarlatina
- typhoid fever
- yeast infection
- yellow fever
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Examples from literature
- But we did not intend to stay there long enough to catch fever and ague.
- Fever and ague descended upon the little home in the early winter.
- He shook with ague.
- My ague distressed me so much, that I was confined to the convent for several days: I did not however weary.
- Rheumatism, debility, ague, and I know not what disorders, receive their respective and certain cures from bathing in these tepid waters.