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Definition

To have a fever.

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In Context

  • "My child's running a high temperature."
  • "At first she "ran a temperature" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace."
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