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Fever

🔄 Synonyms of "Fever"

3 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
pyrexianoun	(medicine) Fever.
febricitynoun	Feverishness.
feverishnessnoun	The quality of being feverish.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Fever"

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Word	Definition
feverishnessnoun	The quality of being feverish.
febricitynoun	Feverishness.
pyrexianoun	(medicine) Fever.
febrile	Feverish, or having a high temperature.
aguenoun	(pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
pestnoun	Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
diseasenoun	(medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
pestilencenoun	Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
boilnoun	The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
plaguenoun	(often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
poxnoun	A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
fmdnoun	(uncountable) Initialism of foot-and-mouth disease. [(pathology, veterinary medicine) A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.]
syndromenoun	(pathology) A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition.
denguenoun	An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.
bluetonguenoun	(uncountable) A disease of ruminants, caused by Bluetongue virus of the genus Orbivirus, carried by mosquitos, midges etc.
pillnoun	(broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
footnoun	A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
thermalnoun	(meteorology) A column of rising air in the lower atmosphere created by uneven heating of a planet's surface.
heatnoun	(uncountable) Thermal energy.
hotnoun	A hot meal, usually in the phrase "three hots" (i.e. three hot meals per day) or derivations such as three hots and a cot.