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DEFERVESCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does defervesce mean?
• DEFERVESCE (verb)
The verb DEFERVESCE has 1 sense:
1. experience an abatement of a fever
Familiarity information: DEFERVESCE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they defervesce ... he / she / it defervesces
Past simple: defervesced
Past participle: defervesced
-ing form: defervescing
... he / she / it defervesces Past simple: defervesced
Past participle: defervesced
-ing form: defervescing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Experience an abatement of a fever
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "defervesce" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
defervescence (abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature)
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