swamp fever

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noun Pathology, Veterinary Pathology.

Also called infectious anemia of horses. an equine viral disease characterized by weakness and recurring fever, transmitted by contaminated food and water.

malaria.

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Origin of swamp fever

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Words nearby swamp fever

swamp buttonwood, swamp cabbage, swamp cypress, swamped, swamper, swamp fever, swampfish, swamphen, swampland, swamp locust, swamp mallow

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How to use swamp fever in a sentence

Besides, victory fever had spread like wildfire throughout the Allied armies.
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Without any evidence or provocation, she attacks Swamp Thing—and then gets beaten in the only fight she has in the issue.
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The sets—which, really, were a feat of design and direction—appeared to be remnants of a Lewis Carroll fever dream.
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Future lives, careers and attitudes were being determined in this lightly regulated fever.
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Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
A native brought news that a collector and his wife were hiding in a swamp near the road.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Père Bracasse was ill, suffering from rheumatism, bronchitis, fever and corns.
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When Stanhope entered to him, he found his guest lying on a sofa, in a high state of fever, both from his wounds and agitation.
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If the fever ends by crisis, the crisis is accompanied by a rapid and striking increase.
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British Dictionary definitions for swamp fever

swamp fever

noun

Also called: equine infectious anaemia a viral disease of horses characterized by recurring fever, staggering gait, and general debility

US another name for malaria

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