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Chills and fever   /tʃɪlz ənd fˈivər/   Listen
Chills and fever

noun
1.
Successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria.  Synonym: ague.






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"Chills and fever" Quotes from Famous Books



... the medicine for chills and fever which he always carried in his pocket, and water from his canteen. The sun shone warm but the ground was damp and cold and there was a chilly breeze. He wrapped the stricken man in his coat and sat down beside him ...
— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller

... was trembling from head to foot. It was hot summer weather, but he could not be kept warm. After several hours a reaction set in and Corney was in a high fever. The family knew well now that he had the dreaded chills and fever of the backwoods. Margat went out and gathered a lapful of pipsissewa to make tea, of which Corney was encouraged to ...
— Animal Heroes • Ernest Thompson Seton

... at first lived on Front street, which is near the river, and Martha caught the chills and fever. William soon lost his place, and they moved across the river to D——. He became known as a speaker, and things have been going from bad to worse; the children have come fast, and Martha has never really recovered from her fever; and they have had simply an awfully hard time. I ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various



Words linked to "Chills and fever" :   quartan, symptom, malaria, ague



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