feverous

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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is taking home a gold medal in the Paris Olympic Games, defeating China’s Yang Liu in the welterweight category after feverous attacks on her gender.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2024

It was a 6-on-4 for the Rangers, whose feverous push to force overtime wouldn’t be denied.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2012

The minister's face was pale as the horse that grew gray when Death mounted him; and his eyes shone with a feverous brilliancy.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George

There was no pose she took, no move she made, But all the feverous, love-envenomed flesh Wrapped round as in the gladiator's mesh And smote as with his triple-forked blade.

From Poems by Seeger, Alan

I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake,      Lest thou a feverous life should'st entertain,      And six or seven winters more respect      Than a perpetual honour.

From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by Hazlitt, William