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breakbone fever
[ breyk-bohn ]
/ ˈbreɪkˌboʊn /
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breakage, break a leg, break and entry, breakaway, breakbeat, breakbone fever, break bread, break bulk, break camp, break cover, break dance
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How to use breakbone fever in a sentence
Commonplaces of gossip followed this—county politics and a neighbor's wife sick of breakbone fever down the road a piece.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm|Irvin S. CobbCommonplaces of gossip followed this—county politics, and a neighbor's wife sick of breakbone fever down the road a piece.
Kentucky in American Letters, v. 2 of 2|John Wilson Townsend
British Dictionary definitions for breakbone fever
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