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befevered en · ADJ

Etymology

From be- + fevered.

Meanings

1. Afflicted with fever.
   • Indeed, I am convinced that there is no microbe or germ, however tough and wicked he may be, that could survive the repeated shocks upon his armor of a series of deep, lusty guffaws deftly produced by the skilled medico in the heart cockles of his befevered patient! 1939, Ben Arid (pseudonym of Melville Clemens Barnard), Putting "It" in the Column, De Vorss & Co. (1939), page 85
   • The place is squalid beyond description, almost in utter ruin, desolated in summer by malaria, and at no time containing more that some hundred and fifty befevered souls […] 1878, George Dennis, The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, John Murray, published 1878, page 236:
   • Frasier Crane: Use it in a sentence. Charlotte Connor: Her grandmother's bed was warm and quilty. Frasier Crane: And why is she lying there? Because she's feeling all "befevered" again? 2004 May 13, Christopher Lloyd & Joe Keenan, "Goodnight, Seattle", episodes 11-23/24 of Frasier, 00:08:16-00:08:30

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