FEVERISHLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feverishly mean? 

• FEVERISHLY (adverb)
  The adverb FEVERISHLY has 1 sense:

1. in a feverish manner

  Familiarity information: FEVERISHLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEVERISHLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a feverish manner

Context example:

she worked feverishly

Pertainym:

feverish (marked by intense agitation or emotion)

 Context examples 

A phase of my life was closing to-night, a new one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These are gas giants like Jupiter but much hotter, with orbits that take them feverishly close to their stars.

(Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters', NASA)

And then her hand closed on his and pressed feverishly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I blew up the embers (we had not yet arranged a winter kitchen), and quite feverishly cooked the breakfast.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We worked feverishly at carrying our plunder on deck and depositing it amidships, so feverishly that Maud, whose strength was hardly a positive quantity, had to give over, exhausted, and sit on the steps at the break of the poop.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I worked feverishly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)