Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ague

3 senses of ague

Sense 1
ague -- (a fit of shivering or shaking)
       => illness, unwellness, malady, sickness -- (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)

Sense 2
ague, chills and fever -- (successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria)
       => symptom -- ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Sense 3
acute accent, acute, ague -- (a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation)
       => accent, accent mark -- (a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation)