breakbone fever

[ breyk-bohn ]

/ ˈbreɪkˌboʊn /

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noun Pathology.

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Origin of breakbone fever

1860–65; break + bone, so called because it makes the bones ache as if breaking at the joints

Words nearby breakbone fever

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. Cobb
Commonplaces 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

breakbone fever

/ (ˈbreɪkˌbəʊn) /

noun

another name for dengue

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