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ague
/ˈeɪɡˌju/
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What does ague mean?
noun
- An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
- The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever.
- A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
More meanings (3)
verb
- To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
noun
- (obsolete) An acute fever.
- (obsolete) Malaria.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈeɪɡˌju/
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My ague seemed to be the culmination of a gradual deterioration of health, which had been going on for several years.
“He may do that afterwards,” said Mrs. Cadwallader—“when he has come out on the other side of the mud with an ague.”
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Annie has had a touch of Algoa Bay fever, a mild kind of ague, but no sign of chest disease, or even delicacy.
I saw, indeed, that they were his, but I shook as if with a fit of the ague in fancying they were not.
My wind cooling my broth Would blow me to an ague when I thought What harm a wind too great might do at sea.