Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - fevered

~ adj only before noun literary 1 extremely excited or worried; feverish (2)  (fevered cries) 2 suffering from a fever; feverish (1)  (fevered brow (=a hot forehead caused by a fever))  (She wiped his fevered brow.) 3 a fevered imagination someone who has a fevered imagination imagines strange things and cannot control their thoughts  (These stories are merely a product of her fevered imagination.)