FEVERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fevered mean? 

• FEVERED (adjective)
  The adjective FEVERED has 1 sense:

1. highly or nervously excited

  Familiarity information: FEVERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEVERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly or nervously excited

Context example:

a fevered imagination

Similar:

excited (in an aroused state)

 Context examples 

Then he was gone; and the door was locked outside; and I was lying, fevered and hot, and torn, and sore, and raging in my puny way, upon the floor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His fevered membranes and burnt stomach began to clamour for more and more of the scorching fluid; while his brain, thrust all awry by the unwonted stimulant, permitted him to go any length to obtain it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Whether is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles—fevered with delusive bliss one hour—suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse and shame the next—or to be a village-schoolmistress, free and honest, in a breezy mountain nook in the healthy heart of England?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)