adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an overactive/fevered imagination (= a mind that imagines strange things that are not real )
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These stories are the product of an overactive imagination.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
brow
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Oh, well, this won't soothe any fevered brows .
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We soothed fevered brows with cool hands and shooed away demons with a look.
imagination
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It's only my fevered imagination that keeps me warm.
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A solution presents itself: the book will not yield to the hectic temptations, the seductions of the fevered imagination .
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The whole idea was crazy, the result of her fevered imagination .
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She wanted to see if the reality matched her fevered imagination .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Security kept the band's fevered fans away from the stage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cold realisation of what she was doing swamped her fevered body.
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Each fevered quest for a true love left me more adrift than ever.
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If the building is rented, there is little opportunity for practical work except for some fevered activity on Sunday.
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Periodically one of us dropped into a fevered sleep.
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We soothed fevered brows with cool hands and shooed away demons with a look.