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Origin of brain fever

First recorded in 1825–35

Words nearby brain fever

Braine, brained, Brainerd, brainfag, brain fart, brain fever, brain-fever bird, brain fingerprinting, brain fog, brainfood, brain freeze

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How to use brain fever in a sentence

He has been under our care for nearly six weeks, suffering from a violent brain fever.
Dracula|Bram Stoker
In his brain fever he raved incessantly of the poor dead girl, and for several weeks his life was despaired of.
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events|S. Baring-Gould
She died of brain fever at the early age of thirty-three, one of the most honored of female English artists.
The College, the Market, and the Court|Caroline H. Dall
The child had been sick with brain fever; I learned that after I got there.
Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity|Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard

The caller drones out the numbers with a monotony only equalled by the brain-fever bird, and quite as disastrous to the nerves.
War in the Garden of Eden|Kermit Roosevelt

British Dictionary definitions for brain fever

brain fever

noun

inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes

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