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
Weakness and fever are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Weakness" instead a noun "Fever".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Steve Rogers has a Long List of afflictions from asthma to rheumatic fever, in addition to general physical weakness and small stature.
Source: Ill Girl / Film - At the same time, the children are suffering from a strange fever, which is caused by a preacher boy who was killed years ago.This film has the examples of: Achilles' Heel: Since Josiah was poisoned by quicksilver before he died, mercury now acts as his weakness.
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The darklord of Valachan and most of his servants are vampires, and white fever is something they invented to explain the weakness that befalls victims who they feed on, but don't kill (which is most of them, actually; they rarely have a need to create more vampires).
Source: Synthetic Plague
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Weakness and Fever. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fever/weakness
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