The pallid cypresses seemed to twist in febrile pain.
Source: tatoeba (10656956)
Febrile
//ˈfiːbɹaɪl//
Synonyms for "febrile" (76 found)
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Related words (38)
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1 entriesderived
11 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- трескав adj (feverish)
Catalan
2 entries- febril adj (feverish)
- febril adj (full of nervous energy)
Czech
2 entries- horečnatý adj (feverish)
- horečnatý adj (full of nervous energy)
Danish
3 entries- febersyg adj (feverish)
- febril adj (feverish)
- febril adj (full of nervous energy)
Dutch
3 entries- koortsachtig adj (feverish)
- koortsachtig adj (full of nervous energy)
- koortsig adj (feverish)
Finnish
2 entries- febriili adj (feverish)
- kuumeinen adj (feverish)
French
2 entries- fébrile adj (feverish)
- fébrile adj (full of nervous energy)
German
4 entries- Fieber adj (feverish)
- febril adj (feverish)
- fieberhaft adj (feverish)
- fieberhaft adj (full of nervous energy)
Hungarian
3 entries- lázas adj (feverish)
- lázas adj (involving fever as a symptom or cause)
- lázas adj (full of nervous energy)
Ido
3 entries- febrala adj (feverish)
- febratra adj (feverish)
- febroza adj (feverish)
Japanese
1 entries- 熱の（ある） adj (feverish)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- febril adj (feverish)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- febril adj (feverish)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- حرارتلو adj (feverish)
- حرارتلو adj (involving fever as a symptom or cause)
Portuguese
1 entries- febril adj (feverish)
Romanian
1 entries- febril adj (feverish)
Russian
1 entries- лихора́дочный adj (full of nervous energy)
Spanish
3 entries- afiebrado adj (involving fever as a symptom or cause)
- febril adj (feverish)
- nervioso adj (full of nervous energy)
Turkish
3 entries- hummalı adj (feverish)
- hummalı adj (involving fever as a symptom or cause)
- hummalı adj (full of nervous energy)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Seizures that occur during the course of a high fever, known as febrile seizures, affect 3 to 4 percent of all children.
Source: tatoeba (12089267)
Aurora's orange sun (Baley scarcely noted the orange tinge now) was mildly warm on his back, lacking the febrile heat that Earth's sun had in summer (but, then, what was the climate and season on this portion of Aurora right now?).
Source: wiktionary
An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.
Source: wiktionary
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