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FEVER

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fever I. substantiv

1. febră, călduri, temperatură; friguri;

brain fever inflamaţie cerebrală;

to have a fever a avea febră, a avea friguri / temperatură;

his fever has returned i-a revenit febra, i-au revenit frigurile;

to be in a fever a fi agitat.

2. agitaţie, excitaţie nervoasă; nerăbdare; dor, nostalgie; goană (după ceva).

fever II. verb A. tranzitiv

a cauza, a provoca febră (cuiva).

fever II. verb B. intranzitiv

a avea febră, a avea temperatură, a fi scuturat de friguri.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Is all that fever gone, and is he strong and hearty?

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Sure enough, when we reached Baker Street the detective was already there, and we found him pacing up and down in a fever of impatience.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

How can I describe to you the fever of impatience in which I lived until the moment should come for which I had waited and planned.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fever or no, he should have come at my call.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Change of air and care will keep you well, I dare say, or if it does not entirely, you will have the fever more lightly.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The fever broke out there, and many of the pupils died.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

He was in a fever that never broke.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

He assured me upon his honour “that he was not poisoned, but died of a bad fever by excessive drinking.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

This was Colonel Campbell, who had very highly regarded Fairfax, as an excellent officer and most deserving young man; and farther, had been indebted to him for such attentions, during a severe camp-fever, as he believed had saved his life.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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