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Definition of swamp fever noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

swamp fever

noun
 
/ˈswɒmp fiːvə(r)/
 
/ˈswɑːmp fiːvər/
[uncountable]
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  1. a serious disease that affects horses
  2. (old-fashioned) malaria (= a serious disease that causes a high temperature and shivering (= shaking of the body) caused by the bite of some types of mosquito)
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