ague
English Thesaurus
1. a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation (noun.communication)
hypernym | : | accent, accent mark, |
definition | : | a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation (noun.communication) |
2. a fit of shivering or shaking (noun.state)
3. successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria (noun.state)
hypernym | : | symptom, |
definition | : | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease (noun.state) |
hyponym | : | quartan, |
definition | : | a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day (noun.state) |
part meronym | : | malaria, |
definition | : | an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever (noun.state) |
Visual ArtiKata
Explore ague in ArtiKata.com >