озно́б — meaning in English

English meaning

• ague noun An acute fever.
• chill noun An uncomfortable feeling of coldness.
• chills noun A feeling of coldness in the body, often a symptom of illness or a reaction to fear or excitement.

Senses

озно́б is used for these senses in English:

• ague A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
• chill A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
• chill An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
• chills (medicine) A feeling of being cold, a symptom of many conditions.

ague — full definition

1. noun An acute fever.
2. noun An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
3. noun The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever.
4. noun A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.

chill — full definition

1. noun An uncomfortable feeling of coldness.
2. adj Calm and relaxed; easygoing about a situation.
3. verb To make something cold, or to become cold.
4. verb To relax and take it easy, often with other people.

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