verb
- to cause to have or suffer from a fever; to afflict with fever
Usage: archaic or literary; third person singular present tense of 'enfever'
Examples
- The illness enfevers the patient within hours of infection.
- A high temperature enfevers the body and weakens the immune response.
- The tropical disease enfevers many travelers each year.
- Stress and exhaustion can enfever the mind as well as the body.