1
: a fever (such as malaria) marked by paroxysms (see paroxysm sense 1) of chills, fever, and sweating that recur at regular intervals
2
: a fit of shivering
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To pioneers, coming down with a case of ague was common.
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Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
The fever and ague, diarrhea and dysentery had made dreadful havoc ... and the awful pictures of the tent town or encamping ground at Happy Valley are horrifying in the extreme.
—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 29 May 2020
Now ague, biliousness, lumbago, Saint Vitus’s dance and dropsy.
—Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2019
The Bolt’s +200-mile range puts it beyond the nagging agues of range anxiety.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
Arnaud described a patient called Louis, a French army officer who had served in Tonkin (in Vietnam) but who had been sent home suffering from 'ague' (probably malaria) and symptoms of amnesia, possibly as a result of cerebral malaria.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2016
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Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
The fever and ague, diarrhea and dysentery had made dreadful havoc ... and the awful pictures of the tent town or encamping ground at Happy Valley are horrifying in the extreme.
—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 29 May 2020
Now ague, biliousness, lumbago, Saint Vitus’s dance and dropsy.
—Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2019
The Bolt’s +200-mile range puts it beyond the nagging agues of range anxiety.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
Arnaud described a patient called Louis, a French army officer who had served in Tonkin (in Vietnam) but who had been sent home suffering from 'ague' (probably malaria) and symptoms of amnesia, possibly as a result of cerebral malaria.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2016
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“Ague.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ague. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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