Crossword-Solution: FEBRILE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Febrile | a. | Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “FEBRILE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Over 98.6 | 1 answer |
| Hot and shivery | 1 answer |
| Running a temperature | 2 answers |
| Flu-stricken | 2 answers |
| Running a high temperature | 3 answers |
| Nervously excited | 4 answers |
| Hot-headed | 5 answers |
| ague | 8 answers |
| Highly excited | 10 answers |
| AFFECTED BY AGUE | 10 answers |
| consumptive | 16 answers |
| Feverish | 42 answers |
| Hectic | 46 answers |
| Fever | 52 answers |
| Flushed | 52 answers |
| Stirring | 64 answers |
| Fiery | 66 answers |
| Frenzied | 75 answers |
| Impassioned | 77 answers |
| Agitated | 95 answers |
| Wild _____ | 108 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FEBRILE (5)
The persecution on the one hand, the febrile enthusiasm on the other, are almost equally difficult to understand in these quiet modern days, and with our easy modern beliefs and disbeliefs.
Each attack was accompanied by pains in the back and hypogastric region, febrile disturbance, and a sanguineous discharge from the urethra, which resembled in color, consistency, etc., the menstrual flux.
After its first fury, however, was spent, the pestilence passed into the usual febrile form of the oriental plague.
For many years she held no open communication with any member of her family, but latterly, as I have explained, she acquired the habit of recuperating--recuperating from the effects of her febrile pleasures--at this obscure place in Scotland.
But the expansion of the benigner feelings incident to opium is no febrile access, but a healthy restoration to that state which the mind would naturally recover upon the removal of any deep-seated irritation of pain that had disturbed and quarrelled with the impulses of a heart originally just and good.
Quotes with FEBRILE (3)
Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too frequent smile, so that when you saw Mignon being happy, you always thought: "It can't last." She had the febrile gaiety of a being without a past, without a present, yet she existed thus, without memory or history, only because her past was too bleak to think of and her future too terrible to contemplate; she was the broken blossom of the present tense.
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
'The Cauliflower' is full of these bizarre anecdotes, some of them petty, others moving or whimsical, as its many characters try to make sense of the universe in which they live - a universe strange, febrile, and utterly unique.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1973–2018).