Ague

//ˈeɪ.ɡju// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An acute fever. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    feather
  3. 3
    a fit of shivering or shaking wordnet
  4. 4
    An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. countable, uncountable

    "He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day."

  5. 5
    fur
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  1. 6
    successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria wordnet
  2. 7
    The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever. countable, uncountable

    "fever and ague"

  3. 8
    A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. countable, uncountable

    "November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart I ’scap’d with one cold fit of an ague"

  4. 9
    Malaria. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Where I’m from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague."

Verb
  1. 1
    To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”). Doublet of acute.

Etymology 2

From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”). Doublet of acute.

Etymology 3

From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”). Doublet of acute.

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