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feverishly

[ fee-ver-ish-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that is overexcited, restless, or uncontrolled, as if from fever:
I haven’t called you in the past few weeks because I've been working feverishly in the lab on a compelling new project.
to a degree that suggests fever:
Tonight, his brilliant blue eyes were feverishly bright.
It was a feverishly hot day in August.
in a manner caused by fever:
He had forgotten how, just a few weeks ago, breathing was a chore and he was lying there helpless and feverishly delirious.

Emotions run feverishly high on both sides, as can be seen daily on social media.

Images of a Hobby Lobby store fly by as the two men in suits feverishly cut through the cross.

The plates of her plot spin ever more feverishly towards absurd calamity, but she balances perfectly the comic and the monstrous.

On the first day of her shoot, she arrived sick and feverishly red.

While we were waiting for our luggage I saw him feverishly tapping his iPad.

After that he lit a cigarette and smoked feverishly, walking up and down the pavement.

As in a trance he crosses the room, seizes charcoal, and feverishly works at the blank canvas on the easel.

As in a trance he crosses the cell, seizes a piece of charcoal, and feverishly works at the picture on the easel!

Mr. Giles, who had been feverishly putting the tea-cups to rights, blushed very red, and said that he had had that honour.

She put her arms inside the bed, and feverishly drew the sheet up underneath her chin.

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