noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cabin fever
dengue fever
fever blister
fever pitch (= a very excited level )
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The goal roused the crowd to fever pitch .
glandular fever
hay fever
rheumatic fever
scarlet fever
spring fever
yellow fever
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
glandular
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Damon had given Jasper measles, glandular fever , two bouts of flu and two colds since Easter.
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Occasionally a person will suffer from a long and unpleasant illness like glandular fever , but this is rare.
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He contracted glandular fever and viral meningitis.
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The 19-year-old Boat Club starlet was struck down by glandular fever last summer, and spent a frustrating time on the sidelines.
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These symptoms looked just like those of glandular fever , and that was what her doctor diagnosed.
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But she suffered a setback when a bout of glandular fever looked like bringing her season to an abrupt halt.
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This virus causes glandular fever and is also associated with a human cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma.
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Or was he stricken with glandular fever ?
high
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These include trauma, sunlight, high fever , and general debility.
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At one point, he had a high fever , a severe rash and intense swelling all over his tiny body.
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Cold extremities with hot head and back; face purple during congestion, high fever .
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Mary, the youngest child, and only girl, of Carlton and Harriet Babbs had a high fever in 1952.
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Pétain awoke with a high fever , and a doctor diagnosed double pneumonia.
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Rarely, a subarachnoid bleed can present with high fever , stiff neck, and headache masquerading as meningitis.
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I developed a high fever and was carried into a waiting truck.
low
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I ran a constant low fever waiting for my ride to come and take me away to something finer.
rheumatic
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If there has been a history of rheumatic fever in the past.
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They said it was rheumatic fever for two years....
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She contracted rheumatic fever at the age of ten.
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The chorea tends to occur several months after rheumatic fever and lasts four to six weeks at most.
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Any family history of rheumatic fever ?
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He left Uppingham in 1937, following rheumatic fever , to serve with a Lloyd's underwriting firm.
scarlet
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You see, it turned out to be scarlet fever , which is a notifiable disease.
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A severe bout of scarlet fever as a boy left him so deaf that he was unable to attend school.
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He didn't have meningitis, or scarlet fever .
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Smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, pneumonia, plague, scarlet fever , diarrhea.
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And she had scarlet fever , but she never complained.
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There were plenty of diseases. Scarlet fever , mumps, chicken pox, and whooping cough floated in the air.
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An outbreak of scarlet fever had taken the nine-year-old twins in little more than a week.
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Children were carried off by diphtheria, scarlet fever , and measles.
typhoid
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Both children then fell seriously ill with typhoid fever: Nannerl nearly died.
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At sixteen she was stricken with typhoid fever , which took her a long time to get over.
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A spokesman said that Soglo was suffering from fatigue following an attack of typhoid fever .
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Hopkins died in Dublin 8 June 1889 of typhoid fever .
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Two years later she applied to nurse in the Boer War and died from typhoid fever at Simonstown, aged 37.
yellow
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Once the rainy season began in April, malaria, yellow fever , typhoid and scurvy began to take their toll.
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The shift could expand the parts of the world where malaria and yellow fever are found.
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Thus, outbreaks of urban yellow fever evolve slowly.
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They died in epidemics of yellow fever , cholera, and smallpox.
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In two of the 16, permission for necropsy was granted and histopathology of liver tissue was compatible with yellow fever .
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The pattern of reaction with dengue and yellow-fever antigen, respectively, made yellow fever the most likely diagnosis.
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About 30,000 workers died during its construction, either from industrial accidents or from rampant yellow fever and malaria.
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Interpretation Urban transmission of yellow fever in Santa Cruz was limited in space and time.
■ NOUN
cabin
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Like a lot of people excited over these prospects, I have recently contracted a terrible case of cabin fever .
election
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Sick and tired of election fever and politics?
hay
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Serge wouldn't even allow her a kitten because of his hay fever .
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Our 4-year-old daughter is sneezing like she has hay fever .
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Student B immediately slams it shut, complaining bitterly of hay fever .
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Children can have hay fever , and despite the name, spring is not an uncommon time for its symptoms to appear.
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The treatment is effective for a wide range of illnesses as well as for allergies and hay fever .
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He was, however, often racked by asthma and suffered much from hay fever .
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The Liberal set-back in 1895 cost him his seat, and his chronic hay fever directed him to an urban constituency.
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Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be.
pitch
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By the time the star is sighted, octave passages have taken over and the excitement reaches fever pitch .
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The challenges to her credibility are reaching fever pitch and are putting the first lady and her allies on the defensive.
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Speculation about the deportations have reached fever pitch in Hong Kong.
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Excitement grew to a fever pitch .
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The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch , now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
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In 1989, an 11-year-old girl was killed by two Rotties and public terror reached fever pitch .
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The crowd was getting to a fever pitch of excitement, Will among them.
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But as the game's tempo reached fever pitch , Saunders squandered a golden opportunity to grab an equaliser.
■ VERB
catch
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In the morning we discovered that she had caught a fever , as a result of getting wet.
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Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too, and died within a few days of each other.
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The normally tranquil town of Reading had caught murder fever .
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But Will caught a fever and then rode home through the cold spring rain.
cause
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This virus causes glandular fever and is also associated with a human cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma.
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After a few days it may go on to their chest or settle in the liver causing a bilious fever and even jaundice.
contract
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He contracted glandular fever and viral meningitis.
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She contracted rheumatic fever at the age of ten.
die
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Exactly a year later Chlothar himself died of fever at Compiègne.
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Another daughter, Elizabeth, died of fever at age two in 1764 and was buried in the Negro cemetery alongside Nina.
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Three weeks later Lavender had died of puerperal fever , but long before that Legh had come to his senses.
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She died after days of fever and agony, the first known victim of the Hyde Amendment.
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She died of typhus fever in the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary, 19 February 1868.
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Two years later she applied to nurse in the Boer War and died from typhoid fever at Simonstown, aged 37.
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Three years after he wrote this letter, Jeremy Taylor died of a fever in his diocese at the age of fifty-four.
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In 1783 their baby daughter, Ann, died of a fever and William himself became critically ill.
reach
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Speculation about the deportations have reached fever pitch in Hong Kong.
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The challenges to her credibility are reaching fever pitch and are putting the first lady and her allies on the defensive.
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The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch, now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
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In 1989, an 11-year-old girl was killed by two Rotties and public terror reached fever pitch.
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Public support for the system was waning steadily as accusations of sleaze in high places reached fever pitch.
run
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She wasn't tipsy, just a little high, probably running a fever .
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I ran a constant low fever waiting for my ride to come and take me away to something finer.
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Children sneezed and cried and ran about in a fever .
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He felt as if he were running a high fever .
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Lice are very temperature-sensitive and will leave a body which is running a fever .
suffer
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He was, however, often racked by asthma and suffered much from hay fever .
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However, on the plus side, they're non-allergenic so ideal if you suffer from hay fever .
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The victim suffers from fever , headaches and muscular pains.
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Eachuinn Odhar suffered a week of fever before he came to his senses.
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His health was excellent; only for the last four years of his life did he suffer from intermittent fever .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
run a temperature/fever
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The baby was fussing and running a fever, so I called the doctor.
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By Sunday morning she was running a temperature.
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I think he's running a temperature, and he's off his food.
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Lice are very temperature-sensitive and will leave a body which is running a fever.
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Lips all cracked, glassy eyes, running a temperature.
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Next morning he ran a temperature but insisted on getting up.
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No wonder she was running a temperature!
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Not running a temperature, are you?
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She wasn't tipsy, just a little high, probably running a fever.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Academy Award fever is taking over Hollywood.
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Football fever has always been widespread in Thailand, but this year perhaps more than ever before.
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For a few months after its introduction, lottery fever swept the nation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By 1742, though the fever had subsided, he was charging Edwards's Northampton following with insanity.
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Headaches due to viral infections may be accompanied by fever , muscle aches, and malaise.
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I downplay the sweats, the shakes, the fever .
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It enveloped Sylvie, chilled the dampness of her forehead, calmed the fever which had brought her here.
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The depression of last week had lifted like a fever passing when the patient sleeps or asks for food.