febrile
/fee-bruhl, feb-ruhl or, especially British, fee-brahyl/US // ˈfi brəl, ˈfɛb rəl or, especially British, ˈfi braɪl //UK // (ˈfiːbraɪl) //
发热,发热的,发烧,发烧的
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : pertaining to or marked by fever; feverish.
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Examples
The result was “Spiral,” 52 minutes in the interzone, a cosmic axis where all points intersect, beholden to neither contemporary trends nor febrile nostalgia.
In the febrile atmosphere of Greece waiting for the onslaught everyone knows is coming, secret agents are proliferating.
But Beardsley was watching Pederson now, whose face took on a sudden febrile gleam.
If an acute febrile condition develops, the wound is mortal.
Febrile and inflammatory diseases were all treated by the withdrawal of nourishment, carried to the extreme.
Everyone was febrile and overwrought except Anne-Marie herself, who seemed to trouble not at all about it.
Fewer colds; febrile attacks very slight; great elasticity in recovering from disease.
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