fevered
adjective
- having a high temperature
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English fever English -ed English fevered From fever + -ed.
- Affected by a fever; feverish.
- Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
“Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.”
“To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree English fever English -ed English fevered From fever + -ed.
- simple past and past participle of fever