Fever and Sickness

Fever

Fever noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning.

Usage example: before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that

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Sickness and fever are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sickness" instead a noun "Fever".

Nearby Words: feverish, feverishly, fevered, feverous, fevering

Sickness noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant or animal's normal bodily functioning.

Usage example: a sickness that resulted in the death of millions of the nation's elm trees

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Fever and sickness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fever" instead a noun "Sickness".

Nearby Words: sick, sicken

nasty	nasty fever	nasty sickness
real	real fever	real sickness
severe	severe fever	severe sickness
extreme	extreme fever	extreme sickness
Other adjectives: bad, terrible, horrible, famous, white, deadly, mysterious, incurable, strange, chronic, prolonged, magical, devastating.

In Yellow Fever, Dean contracts a ghost sickness that makes him terrified of everything and decides to stop hunting life.

Source: 10-Minute Retirement
Ray Bradbury's "Fever Dream" is the story of a little boy who discovers that every cell in his body is slowly being replaced by... something, but nobody believes him because they think he's just delirious with sickness.

Source: Body Horror / Literature
Another poem, Nach der Krankheit ("After Sickness", 1777) describes how during a bad fever Death comes to Asmus (Claudius' alter ego) and with a friendly smile offers to take him into his arm.

Source: Don't Fear the Reaper

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