ague

Noun
  1. A fit of shivering or shaking (synset 114088814)
    is a type of: illness, malady, sickness, unwellness - impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
  2. Successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria (synset 114363867)
    is a type of: symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
    subtypes: quartan - a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day
    is a part of: malaria - an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever
    same as: chills and fever
  3. A mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation (synset 106835460)
    is a type of: accent, accent mark - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
    same as: acute, acute accent

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