Definition of "fever-ridden" in English

adjective

1. (of a place or community) Experiencing an epidemic of one of the diseases known as fever (such as yellow fever).

   • 1900, Ira L. Reeves, Bamboo Tales, Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing, Chapter , pp. 135-136, […] it was but shortly after he had returned from fever-ridden Santiago, when in the hospital at Montauk Point, that the much-coveted document, making him an officer in the United States Army, reached him.
   • 2007, Giles Foden, “The brio of Ali Banana” (review of Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele, The Guardian, 2 June, 2007, Rain and illness turn the camp into a fever-ridden mudbath.

2. (of a place) Harbouring the virus that causes one of the diseases known as fever.

3. (of a person) Suffering from fever.

   • 1999, “Soothing Solutions to the Cold & Flu Season” (review of A Soothing Broth by Pat Willard), Washington Post, 17 March, 1999, Willard is plagued by the memory of one seemingly endless night as a newlywed when she helplessly watched her fever-ridden husband toss and turn in misery.