fever-ridden
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Experiencing an epidemic of one of the diseases known as fever (such as yellow fever).
adj
Example Sentences
- "1900, Ira L. Reeves, Bamboo Tales, Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing, Chapter , pp. 135-136, […] it was but shortly after he had returned from fever-ridden Santiago, when in the hospital at Montauk Point, that the much-coveted document, making him an officer in the United States Army, reached him."
- "2007, Giles Foden, “The brio of Ali Banana” (review of Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele, The Guardian, 2 June, 2007, Rain and illness turn the camp into a fever-ridden mudbath."
- "Twenty long years in that fever-ridden swamp, all day at work under the mangrove-tree, all night chained up in the filthy convict-huts, bitten by mosquitoes, racked with ague, […]"
- "[…] the diamond mine was six and a half hours’ walk through fever-ridden jungle, fraught with hazards from wild animals […]"
- "The State posts were “clearings,” less than one hundred yards square, cut out of the jungle. Sometimes only black men were in charge, but as a rule the chef de poste was a lonely, fever-ridden white, whose only interest in our arrival was his hope that we might spare him quinine."
- "Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more fever-ridden (comparative)
most fever-ridden (superlative)