swine fever

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noun Veterinary Pathology.

hog cholera.

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Origin of swine fever

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby swine fever

swindled, swindler, swindle sheet, Swindon, swine, swine fever, swine flu, swineherd, swine influenza, swine plague, swinepox

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How to use swine fever in a sentence

These industrial farms and increased pressure for output set up the conditions for epidemics like swine fever in the first place.
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Besides, victory fever had spread like wildfire throughout the Allied armies.
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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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Spirits in Stanleyville were high, and a local 19-year-old was emboldened by independence fever.
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Take Too Many Cooks: a fever dream of a segment that aired at 4:00am earlier this week.
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Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.
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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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The spirillum of relapsing fever can be identified by the method for the malarial parasite in fresh blood.
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British Dictionary definitions for swine fever

swine fever

noun

an infectious viral disease of pigs, characterized by fever, refusal to eat, weight loss, and diarrhoeaUS term: hog cholera

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