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fever-dreamlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From fever dream + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fever dream.
   • Stuart Gordon, whose debut, RE-ANIMATOR, was the sleeper horror hit of 1985, returned again to the fever-dreamlike stories of H.P. Lovecraft for his source in FROM BEYOND. 1989, “FROM BEYOND”, in James J. Mulay, editor, The Horror Film: A Guide to More Than 700 Films on Videocassette, Evanston, Ill.: CineBooks, →ISBN, page 91, column 2:
   • Or was it his nerves at all? Elliot thought back, despite himself, to the fever-dreamlike trudge through the Hockomock, to the resting place of the Ujaraanni, to the swamp’s vague corruption and the almost desperate efforts of nature itself to purge the intrusion. 2021, Ari Marmell, chapter 23, in Litany of Dreams (Arkham Horror), Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Aconyte Books, →ISBN, page 313:
   • [T]he dominant tone is barely suppressed hysteria, complemented perfectly by Philip Glass’s insistent, fever-dreamlike score. 2007, David Gritten, “Notes on a Scandal”, in Halliwell’s Film, Video & DVD Guide 2008, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, →ISBN, page 859, column 4:

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