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Definition of fevered adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

fevered

adjective

NAmE//ˈfivərd//

[only before noun]

1showing great excitement or worry fevered excitement/speculation a fevered imagination/mind (= that imagines strange things)

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2(formal) suffering from a fever She mopped his fevered brow.

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