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# ague

noun (ague, no plural in use); old use

«ague» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

An ague was an old word for an illness with fever and shivering, the kind caught from damp places. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ague/#m1)

### In the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories, a sickness that makes poor people shiver and sweat

### Examples

- After the hard winter the poor woman suffered from fever and ague. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ague/#x1)
- In old tales, people caught ague from the damp marshes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ague/#x2)
- The old man shook with ague by the fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ague/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ague» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ague/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ague» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ague.html) on Mova free.