[responsivevoice]fevered [/responsivevoice] [ fee-ver ]
The word of the day is ‘fevered’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Agitated
2. Worked up
3. Having or showing the symptoms associated with a dangerously high temperature
4. Feeling or displaying an excessive degree of nervous excitement, agitation, or energy
1. The fevered crisis past, he slowly returns to conscious memory.
2. They mopped his fevered brow.
3. This idea is my fevered adolescent imagination.
4. She roused every fevered nerve to do battle with the strong man for his son
5. For months I was mad, fevered, delirious, and yet I could not die.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
agitated, frenzied, heated, restless, zealous, burning, burning up, enthusiastic, excited, febrific, febrile, flushed, hot, impatient, inflamed, intense, on fire, passionate, pyretic, feverish, sweating, energetic, overwrought, frantic, worked up, fervid, swivel-eyed, inflamed, fiery, aroused, flustered, upset, delirious, incoherent, raving, babbling, irrational, hysterical, wild, raving, flip, stir up, perturb, flurry, frustrate etc.
calm
Quotation:
All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
Vincent Bugliosi
Social Example:
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