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AGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
Synonyms:
acute; acute accent; ague
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ague" is a kind of...):
accent; accent mark (a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A fit of shivering or shaking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ague" is a kind of...):
illness; malady; sickness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria
Synonyms:
ague; chills and fever
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ague" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ague"):
quartan (a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day)
Holonyms ("ague" is a part of...):
malaria (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)
