OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 21322

febrile

/ˈfiːbɹaɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
febril
Feverish, or having a high temperature.
Aurora's orange sun (Baley scarcely noted the orange tinge now) was mildly warm on his back, lacking the febrile heat that Earth's sun had in summer (but, then, what was the climat…
afiebrado
Involving fever as a symptom or cause.
nervioso
Full of nervous energy.
An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advan…
Out in the ground, meanwhile, it was particularly disappointing to hear former England captain Andrew Strauss put the febrile atmosphere down to “people who don’t normally come to…