DEFERVESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does defervesce mean? 

• DEFERVESCE (verb)
  The verb DEFERVESCE has 1 sense:

1. experience an abatement of a fever

  Familiarity information: DEFERVESCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFERVESCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they defervesce    ... he / she / it defervesces   
Past simple: defervesced   
Past participle: defervesced   
-ing form: defervescing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Experience an abatement of a fever

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "defervesce" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

defervescence (abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature)