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AY-gyoo
noun
aches and chills; fever with shivering and shaking, sometimes including aching bones and joints and persistent tiredness or exhaustion; malaria
1697William DampierA New Voyage Round the WorldHere I was taken sick of Fever and Ague that afterward turned to Dropsy, which I laboured under a long time after, a many of our men died of this Distempter, though our Surgeons used their greatest Skill to preserve their Lives.1849Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Caxtons...the quotidian ague of frigid impertinences…

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