HOW TO PRONOUNCE
febrile
/ˈfi brəl/
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What does febrile mean?
adjective
- Feverish, or having a high temperature.
- Involving fever as a symptom or cause.
- (figuratively) Full of nervous energy.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈfi brəl/
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It is a direct and powerful sedative, a mild diuretic, and useful in every inflammatory and febrile complaint.
The rest stared at him with eyes arrested and riveted, and he went on in a febrile and feminine agitation.
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It was an oriental plague, marked by inflammatory boils and tumours of the glands, such as break out in no other febrile disease.
It is a thoroughly well believed theory, that during the continuance of the plague you can’t be ill of any other febrile malady—an unpleasant privilege that!
Be careful, however, not to employ your intelligence and your will power to suppress acute inflammatory and febrile processes and symptoms.