Calvin had become a chronic sufferer from ague and catarrh.
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Ague
//ˈeɪ.ɡju//
Synonyms for "ague" (224 found)
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Strong matches (67)
convulsioncoughingcowpoxcyanosisdandy feverdeer fly feverdenguedengue feverdiarrheadiphtheriadizzinessdropsydumdum feverdysenterydyspepsiadyspneaedemaelephantiasisemaciationencephalitis lethargica
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enteric fevererysipelasfaintingfamine feverfatiguefeverfibrillationfits and startsfive-day feverflufluxframbesiagerman measlesglandular fevergrippegrowthhansenosishaverhill feverhemorrhagehepatitisherpesherpes simplexherpes zosterhigh blood pressurehistoplasmosishookwormhydrophobiahydropshypertensionhypotensionicterusindigestioninfantile paralysisinfectious mononucleosisinflammationinflammatory rheumatisminfluenzainsomniaitchingjactationjactitationjail feverjaundicejerkinessjoltinessjungle rotkala azar
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kissing diseaselabored breathinglepraleprosyleptospirosisloa loaloaiasislockjawlow blood pressurelumbagomadnessmalariamalarial fevermarasmusmarsh fevermeaslesmeningitismilzbrandmumpsnasal discharge
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nauseanecrosisornithosisosteomyelitispainpalsyparalysisparatyphoid feverparotitisparrot feverpertussispneumoniapoliopoliomyelitispolyarthritis rheumatismponosprurituspsittacosisquakingquaveringquiveringrabbit feverrabiesrashrat-bite feverrelapsing feverrheumrheumatic feverrickettsialpoxringwormrubellarubeolascarlatinascarlet feverschistosomiasissclerosisseizureseptic sore throatshakesshakingshinglesshiveringshiversshockshudderingskin eruptionsleeping sicknesssleepy sicknesssmallpoxsnail feversneezingsorespasmspasmssplenic feverspotted feverstrep throatsuccussionswamp fevertabestachycardiatetanusthrushtineatremblingtremulousnesstrench fevertrench mouthtuberculosistularemiatumortyphoidtyphoid fevertyphustyphus feverundulant feverupset stomachvacciniavaricellavariolavenereal diseasevertigovibrationviral dysenteryvomitingwastingwhooping coughyawsyellow feveryellow jackzonazoster
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30 translations across 16 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἠπίαλος noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
Bulgarian
1 entries- треска noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 寒戰 /寒战 noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
Chinook Jargon
1 entries- cōle sick noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
Dutch
1 entries- koorts noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
Finnish
3 entries- horkka noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
- palelu noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
- sahaava kuume noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
French
1 entries- fièvre noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
German
2 entries- Schüttelfrost noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
- Wechselfieber noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
Greek
1 entries- ρίγη noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
Ingrian
2 entries- veritauti noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
- veritauti noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
Japanese
2 entries- 寒気 noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
- 悪寒 noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
Māori
3 entries- kinawhea noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
- kunawhea noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
- kunāwhea noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
Polish
1 entries- febra noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
Russian
3 entries- лихора́дка noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
- озно́б noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
- лихора́дка verb (to strike with an ague, or with a cold fit)
Spanish
2 entries- escalofrío noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
- fiebre intermitente noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
Ukrainian
4 entries- лихома́нка noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
- озноб noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
- остуда noun (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
- пропа́сниця noun (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
He shivered all the while, so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off. “I think you have got the ague,” said I. “I’m much of your opinion, boy,” said he. “It’s bad about here,” I told him. “You’ve been lying out on the meshes, and they’re dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too.”
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Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the shanty were all down with it, and my husband was confined to his bed on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving in the delirium of the fever.
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