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fevered

 adjective
     
Related topics: Illness and Disability
fe‧vered [only before noun] literary
1 extremely excited or worried [= feverish]:
the child's fevered cries
2MI suffering from a fever [= feverish]:
his fevered brow (=a hot forehead caused by a fever)
3

a fevered imagination/mind/brain

a mind that imagines strange things that are not real:
These stories are merely a product of her fevered imagination.
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