fever-ridden

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Experiencing an epidemic of one of the diseases known as fever (such as yellow fever).
    — 1900, Ira L. Reeves, Bamboo Tales, Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing, Chapter , pp. 135-136, […] it was but shortly after he had returned from fever-ridden Santiago, when in the hospital at Montauk Point, that the much-coveted document, making him an officer in the United States Army, reached him.
  2. Harbouring the virus that causes one of the diseases known as fever.
    — Twenty long years in that fever-ridden swamp, all day at work under the mangrove-tree, all night chained up in the filthy convict-huts, bitten by mosquitoes, racked with ague, […]
  3. Suffering from fever.
    — The State posts were “clearings,” less than one hundred yards square, cut out of the jungle. Sometimes only black men were in charge, but as a rule the chef de poste was a lonely, fever-ridden white, whose only interest in our arrival was his hope that we might spare him quinine.

词形变化

more fever-ridden comparative most fever-ridden superlative

词源

From fever + -ridden.
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