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fever-ridden

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Experiencing an epidemic of one of the diseases known as fever (such as yellow fever).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1900, Ira L. Reeves, Bamboo Tales, Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing, Chapter , pp. 135-136, [...] it was but shortly after he had returned from fever-ridden Santiago, when in the hospital at Montauk Point, that the much-coveted document, making him an officer in the United States Army, reached him.
  • 2007, Giles Foden, “The brio of Ali Banana” (review of Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele, The Guardian, 2 June, 2007, Rain and illness turn the camp into a fever-ridden mudbath.

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adj

Meaning 2

Harbouring the virus that causes one of the diseases known as fever.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

adj

Meaning 3

Suffering from fever.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1999, “Soothing Solutions to the Cold & Flu Season” (review of A Soothing Broth by Pat Willard), Washington Post, 17 March, 1999, Willard is plagued by the memory of one seemingly endless night as a newlywed when she helplessly watched her fever-ridden husband toss and turn in misery.

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History

Etymology

From fever + -ridden.