озно́б — meaning in English

English meaning

• ague noun A sudden, severe 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 A sudden, severe fever.
2. noun (old use) A fever that comes and goes, with spells of shivering followed by spells of heat.
3. noun (old use) The shivering stage of a fever that comes and goes.
4. noun A fit of shivering, as if from 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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