fevered

comparative more fevered · superlative most fevered

1. Affected by a fever; feverish.
2. Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.

   To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.

   2010, Noam Chomsky, “The Iranian threat”, in Z Magazine, volume 23, number 7

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   Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.

   2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of fever