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AGUE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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)

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