Ague

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1. Noun

An acute fever.

2. Noun

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

3. Noun

The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.

4. Noun

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

5. Verb

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

6. Noun

successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria
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