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feverish

/ˈfiː.və.ɹɪʃ/adjective

Bursting with hurried, restless energy.

Example sentences

  • The office was in a feverish rush before the product launch.
  • He scribbled feverish notes as the ideas kept coming.

Feverish activity or preparations means work done at anxious, unsustainable speed. It also literally describes someone running a temperature.

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