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DEFERVESCE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they defervesce ... he / she / it defervesces
Past simple: defervesced
Past participle: defervesced
-ing form: defervescing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Experience an abatement of a fever
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "defervesce" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
defervescence (abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature)
