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  • 31Ague — Feverish sickness with high fever, perhaps the *sweating sickness or malaria. Severe cases were probably genuine influenza; others, the bad headcold we persist in calling flu. [< Lat. acuta = acute] …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 32ague — Synonyms and related words: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, abscess, acute articular rheumatism, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, anthrax, apnea,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 33ague — airbag bague blague brague dague divague drag drague ersatz extravague flag gag goulag landtag madrague minivague oflag pastenague rague reichstag schlague sleeping bag stalag tag vague zigzag zigzague élague …

    Dictionnaire des rimes

  • 34ague — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. chill. See disease …

    English dictionary for students

  • 35ague — a|gue [ˈeıgju:] n [U and C] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: Medieval Latin (febris) acuta sharp fever , from Latin acutus; ACUTE] old fashioned a fever that makes you shake and feel cold …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 36ague — a·gue || eɪgjuː n. malarial fever; chills, fit of shivering; chill …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 37ague — [ eɪgju:] noun archaic malaria or another illness involving fever and shivering. ↘a fever or shivering fit. Derivatives agued adjective aguish adjective Origin ME: via OFr. from med. L. acuta (febris) acute (fever) …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 38ague — noun (C, U) old fashioned a fever that makes you shake and feel cold …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 39ague — n chills, fever, chills and fever, malarial fever, Path. rigor; chill, chilliness, cold; shivering, shakes, quaking, trembling, tremor …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 40ague — n.; see malaria …

    The new mediacal dictionary

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