ague

n. 疟疾, 打冷颤 [医] 疟[疾], 疟状发热; 寒战

发音

US /ˈeɪ.ɡju/

词形变化

agues 复数 agued agues 三单 agues aguing aguing 现在分词 agued 过去式 agued 过去分词

别名

aiger

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An acute fever.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  2. 2.

    An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

    可数 不可数 医学
  3. 3.

    The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever.

    可数 不可数

    fever and ague

  4. 4.

    A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.

    寒战

    可数 不可数

    November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart I ’scap’d with one cold fit of an ague

  5. 5.

    Malaria.

    可数 废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 5

illness sickness symptom malady unwellness

下位词 1

quartan

整体词 1

malaria

相关短语

fever and ague face ague [医] 三叉神经痛 Covent Garden ague duck ague buck ague dumb ague [医] 哑疟(无寒战疟疾)

词源

From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”). Doublet of acute.

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