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ague
/ˈeɪ.ɡju/
noun 7verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
bad, chronic
VERB + AGUE
got
AGUE + NOUN
catarrh, fever, lake
PREP.
from
Definitions
noun
1
An acute fever.
2
An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.
He shivered all the while, so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off. “I think you have got the ague,” said I. “I’m much of your opinion, boy,” said he. “It’s bad about here,” I told him. “You’ve been lying out on the meshes, and they’re dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too.”
3
The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever.
fever and ague
4
A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart I ’scap’d with one cold fit of an ague
5
Malaria.
Where I’m from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague.
verb
1
To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
noun
1
feather
2
fur
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He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.
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He shivered all the while, so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off. “I think you have got the ague,” said I. “I
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Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the shanty were all down with it, and my husband was confined to his bed on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving
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Calvin had become a chronic sufferer from ague and catarrh.
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