English Dictionary

fever-ridden

形容詞

地域・共同体 地名 人物

(of a place or community) Experiencing an epidemic of one of the diseases known as fever (such as yellow fever). / (of a place) Harbouring the virus that causes one of the diseases known as fever.

日本語の意味

熱病が蔓延している（特に、所や地域が黄熱病などの熱病の流行に見舞われている状態） / 熱病によって影響を受けている・苦しんでいる

The fever-ridden port city struggled to quarantine arriving ships and care for the sick.

熱病の流行に見舞われた港町は、入港する船を隔離し、病人の手当てをするのに苦労した。

意味（1）

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

[…] 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.

意味（2）

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

Whose loot is this, if it is not ours? Where is the justice that I should give it up to those who have never earned it? Look how I have earned it! Twenty long years in that fever-ridden swamp, all day at work under the mangrove-tree, all night chained up in the filthy convict-huts, bitten by mosquitoes, racked with ague […]

意味（3）

(of a person) Suffering from fever.

The State posts were “clearings,” less than one hundred yards square, cut out of the jungle. Sometimes only black men were in charge, but as a rule the chef de poste was a lonely, fever-ridden white, whose only interest in our arrival was his hope that we might spare him quinine.

more fever-ridden （ comparative ）

most fever-ridden （ superlative ）