tick fever

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noun

any fever transmitted by ticks, as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which attacks humans, or Texas fever, which is confined to some animals, as cattle.

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Origin of tick fever

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby tick fever

tickets, ticket scalper, ticket tout, tickety-boo, tickey, tick fever, ticking, ticklace, tickle, tickled pink, tickle one's fancy

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How to use tick fever in a sentence

She actually had never been to a Deer Tick show before, but she liked it a lot.
Deer Tick's John McCauley on Ten Years in Rock and Roll|James Joiner|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
So we picked out the song (“Rhiannon,” click here for video), and Deer Tick learned it.
Deer Tick's John McCauley on Ten Years in Rock and Roll|James Joiner|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
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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Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
“The sepoys have come in from Meerut,” he announced with the slow tick of the earliest form of apparatus.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Père Bracasse was ill, suffering from rheumatism, bronchitis, fever and corns.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
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.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

British Dictionary definitions for tick fever

tick fever

noun

any acute infectious febrile disease caused by the bite of an infected tick

another name for Rocky Mountain spotted fever

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