ague
noun
a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold, hot, and sweating fits.
agues
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pluralof ague.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Political analyst Mr Lawal said the president should appoint the best person for the job, irrespective of their ethnic origin – and agues that this is what Tinubu is doing.
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
Today, winter as well as summer, he bathes his feet in cold water every morning, a regimen he credits with making him impervious to colds and agues.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1763, an English clergyman, Edward Stone, found that willow tea eased the agues of malaria.
From Time Magazine Archive
It banished a few birds; but we could better spare a few kinds of birds than preserve them with the fevers and the agues which were the inseparable accident of their haunts.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
To shuddering want's unmantled bed, Thy horror-breathing agues cease to lead, And gently on the orphan head Of innocence descend.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
