run a temperature

verb

To have a fever.

“My child's running a high temperature.”

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Meanings

verbrun a temperature (third-person singular simple present runs a temperature, present participle running a temperature, simple past ran a temperature, past participle run a temperature)

present singular third person runs a temperature · participle present running a temperature · past ran a temperature

  1. idiomaticTo have a fever.

    My child's running a high temperature.

    1 more example

    At first she "ran a temperature" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace.

    1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, in Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC, page 200

    Synonyms: run a fever

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo have a fever.

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