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

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

From Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, William

With feeble steps but feverous haste she hurried over the grass.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George

Shall then the virtuous disobey Hosts of an aged king and sire, Though feverous joy that father sway, Or senseless love or causeless ire?

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)