Verb

• To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
• (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.

Exemple

• The man that shivered on the brink of sin, / Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in.
• Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton’s chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, “old woman,”—”quite troublesome.”
• He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.
• Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
• They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.

Noun

• The act of shivering.
• (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp

Exemple

• A shiver went up my spine.
• But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.

Noun

• A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
• (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
• A state of excitement or anxiety.
• (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A group of stingrays.

Synonyms

• (higher than normal body temperature): high temperature, pyrexia (medical term), temperature
• (state of excitement): excitation, excitement, passion

Hyponyms

• dance fever
• abortus fever
• absorption fever
• acclimating fever
• Aden fever
• adynamic fever
• aestivoautumnal fever
• African Coast fever
• algid pernicious fever
• aphthous fever
• ardent fever
• arthropod-borne fever
• artificial fever
• aseptic fever
• Assam fever
• ataxic fever
• autumn fever
• barrel fever
• Bay fever
• beaver fever
• benign tertian fever
• biduoterian fever
• biliary fever
• bilious fever
• black fever
• black fly fever
• blackwater fever
• blue fever
• bouquet fever
• boutonneuse fever
• bovine epizootic fever
• brain fever
• brassfounder’s fever
• brass founder’s fever
• Brazilian purpuric fever
• breakbone fever
• buck fever
• Bullis fever
• bullous fever
• Bunyamwera fever
• Burdwan fever
• Bwamba fever
• cabin fever
• cachectic fever
• cachexial fever
• camp fever
• cane-cutter fever
• cane-field fever
• canefield fever
• canicola fever
• Cape Horn fever
• Carrión’s fever
• Carter’s fever
• catarrhal fever
• cat-bite fever
• cat fever
• catheter fever
• cat-scratch fever
• central fever
• cerebro-spinal fever
• cerebrospinal fever
• Chagres fever
• channel fever
• Charcot’s fever
• chikungunya fever
• childbed fever
• childbirth fever
• Choix fever
• congestive fever
• Congolian red fever
• Congo red fever
• continued fever
• continuous fever
• cotton fever
• cotton-mill fever
• country fever
• Crimean fever
• Cyprus fever
• dandy fever
• date fever
• deer fly fever
• dehydration fever
• dengue fever
• desert fever
• diary fever
• digestive fever
• diphasic milk fever
• disfever
• dock fever
• double quotidian fever
• drug fever
• duck fever
• dumdum fever
• Dutch type periodic fever
• East Coast fever
• Ebola fever
• Ebola virus fever
• elephantoid fever
• Elokomin fluke fever
• English fever
• enteric fever
• entericoid fever
• entrance fever
• ephemeral fever
• epimastical fever
• eruptive fever
• essential fever
• estivoautumnal fever
• exanthematous fever
• exsiccation fever
• falciparum fever
• familial Hibernian fever
• familial periodic fever
• famine fever
• farrowing fever
• fatigue fever
• field fever
• five-day fever
• flood fever
• fog fever
• food fever
• Fort Bragg fever
• foundryman’s fever
• Gambian fever
• gaol fever
• gastric fever
• Gibraltar fever
• glandular fever
• gold fever
• grain fever
• green fever
• haematuric bilious fever
• haemoglobinuric fever
• haemorrhagic fever
• Hankow fever
• harvest fever
• Hasami fever
• Haverhill fever
• hay fever
• hectic fever
• hematuric bilious fever
• hemoglobinuric fever
• hemorrhagic fever
• hempen fever
• hepatic intermittent fever
• herpetic fever
• horse sickness fever
• hospital fever
• humidifier fever
• Ilheus fever
• inanition fever
• induced fever
• inflammatory fever
• intermittent fever
• inundation fever
• island fever
• Jaccoud’s dissociated fever
• jail fever
• Japanese flood fever
• Japanese river fever
• jungle fever
• jungle yellow fever
• Junin fever
• Katayama fever
• Kedani fever
• Kenya fever
• Kew Gardens fever
• Kinkiang fever
• Korin fever
• Lábrea fever
• Lábrea’s black fever
• land fever
• Lassa fever
• laurel fever
• Lazaret fever
• lechuguilla fever
• Lombard fever
• Lone Star fever
• lung fever
• malarial fever
• malignant tertian fever
• Malta fever
• Manchurian fever
• Marseilles fever
• marsh fever
• Mediterranean coast fever
• Mediterranean erythematous fever
• Mediterranean exanthematous fever
• Mediterranean fever
• meningotyphoid fever
• metal fume fever
• Meuse fever
• Mexican fever
• Mianeh fever
• miliary fever
• milk fever
• mill fever
• Monday fever
• monoleptic fever
• Mossman fever
• mountain fever
• mud fever
• mumu fever
• Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever
• Murchison-Sanderson fever
• nanukayami fever
• Neapolitan fever
• nervous fever
• nine mile fever
• nodal fever
• o’nyong-nyong fever
• Oropouche fever
• Oroya fever
• paludal fever
• papataci fever
• papatasi fever
• pappataci fever
• papular fever
• paratyphoid fever
• parenteric fever
• parrot fever
• parturient fever
• Pel-Ebstein fever
• periodic fever
• petechial fever
• pharyngoconjunctival fever
• phlebotomus fever
• pinta fever
• pituitous fever
• polka fever
• polyleptic fever
• polymer fume fever
• Pomona fever
• Pontiac fever
• Potomac fever
• Potomac horse fever
• pretibial fever
• prison fever
• prison fever typhus
• protein fever
• puerperal fever
• puking fever
• purple fever
• putrid fever
• Pym fever
• Pym’s fever
• pyogenic fever
• Q fever
• query fever
• rabbit fever
• ratbite fever
• rat-bite fever
• recrudescent typhus fever
• recurrent fever
• recurring fever
• red fever
• redwater fever
• relapsing fever
• remittent fever
• rheumatic fever
• Rhodesian fever
• rice-field fever
• Rock fever
• rock fever
• Roman fever
• rose fever
• Ross River fever
• rotanny fever
• run a fever
• sakushu fever
• Salinem fever
• salt fever
• sand-fly fever
• sandfly fever
• Santa Marta fever
• scarlet fever
• Schamberg fever
• Schottmüller’s fever
• secondary fever
• Sennetsu fever
• septic fever
• Shar Pei fever
• shin bone fever
• ship fever
• shipping fever
• shoddy fever
• Sindbis fever
• slime fever
• slow fever
• smelter’s fever
• snail fever
• solar fever
• Songo fever
• spelter’s fever
• spirillary fever
• spirillum fever
• splenic fever
• spotted fever
• spottled fever
• spring fever
• steroid fever
• sthenic fever
• stockyards fever
• stranger’s fever
• streptobacillary fever
• summer fever
• sun fever
• suppurative fever
• surgical fever
• swamp fever
• swine fever
• symptomatic fever
• syphilitic fever
• São Paulo fever
• Texas cattle fever
• Texas fever
• therapeutic fever
• thermic fever
• thirst fever
• three-day fever
• threshing fever
• tick-bite fever
• tick-borne fever
• tick fever
• Tobia fever
• traumatic fever
• trench fever
• trypanosome fever
• tsutsugamushi fever
• typhoid fever
• typhus fever
• undifferentiated type fever
• undulant fever
• undulating fever
• upgrade fever
• urethral fever
• urinary fever
• urticarial fever
• uveoparotid fever
• valley fever
• verruga fever
• vivax fever
• war fever
• Wesselsbron fever
• West African fever
• West Nile fever
• Whitmore’s fever
• winter fever
• Wolhynia fever
• womb fever
• worm fever
• wound fever
• yellow fever
• Zika fever
• zinc fume fever

Related terms

• feed a cold, starve a fever
• fever ague
• fever and ague
• fever blister
• fever bush
• fever grass
• fever lent
• fever of unknown origin
• fever pitch
• fever powder
• fever ring
• Fever River
• fever root
• fever sore
• fever therapy
• fever thermometer
• fever treatment
• fever tree
• fever twig
• Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome

Related terms

• fervent
• fervid
• fervor

Examples

• “I have a fever. I think I’ve the flu.”
• scarlet fever
• an envious fever
• On the way back to the mainland the boat passed over a fever of stingrays, and the sight of them through the glass was enough to colour everything else, and outstrip it.
• They move like thoughts, like memory, like a Wes Anderson diorama of earthly delights: lionfish, an albacore, a fever of stingrays—and then like a wound, a sea turtle at eye level.

Verb

• To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
• To become fevered.

Examples

• a fevered lip
• the white hand of a lady fever thee