Fever pitch

Definition

fever / 'fi:vǝ(r) / n ၁။ [C, U] ဖ်ားျခင္း။ ကိုယ္ပူျခင္း။ He has a high fever. ❍ Aspirin can reduce fever. ၂။ [U] ေရာဂါ။ yellow/typhoid/ rheumatic / scarlet fever. See also HAY FEVER ၃။ (က) [sing] စိတ္ ဂနာမၿငိမ္ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ He waited for her arrival in a fever of impatience. (ခ) [U] ( infml ) [ ဥ ] ေရာဂါထျခင္း။ election fever ❍ World Cup fever has gripped the country. ❏ fevered adj ၁။ အဖ်ားရိွေနေသာ။ ကိုယ္ပူေနေသာ။ She cooled his fevered brow. ၂။ စိတ္ ဂနာမၿငိမ္ ျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ a fevered imagination ❍ fevered negotiations. ❏ feverish / 'fi:vǝrÇʃ / adj ၁။ အဖ်ားရိွေနေသာ။ အဖ်ား ေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ရေသာ။ feverish dreams ❍ The child's body felt feverish. ၂။ ပ်ာယာခတ္ေသာ။ feverish activity ❍ with feverish haste. ❏ feverishly adv အလြန္ပ်ာယာခတ္လ်က္။ searching feverishly for a cigarette. ❏ fever pitch n [U] အလြန္႔အလြန္ စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားျခင္း။ His anxiety reached fever pitch. ❍ The crowd had been roused to fever pitch by the drama of the game.

Examples

1. Use paracetamol syrup to reduce fever in infants.
2. [have a fever] : Tom had a high fever all week.
3. The whole country was in the grip of election fever.
4. I was in a fever of excitement.