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run a temperature en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To have a fever.
    • At first she "ran a temperature" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace. 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 200:
    • My child's running a high temperature.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ran a temperature Tense=Past lexicographic
runs a temperature Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
running a temperature Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
run a temperature Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

run a fever