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fevered adjective [ ˈfiːvəd ]

• having or showing the symptoms associated with a dangerously high temperature.
• "they mopped his fevered brow"
Similar: feverish, febrile, hot, burning, sweating, pyretic,

fever verb

• bring about a high body temperature or a state of nervous excitement in.
• "a heart which sin has fevered"
Origin: Old English fēfor, from Latin febris ; reinforced in Middle English by Old French fievre, also from febris .


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