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shaking ague (s) (noun), shaking agues (pl)
1. An acute febrile state with chills: Shaking ague can be a fit of fever accompainied by shivering and by pains in the joints and bones.
2. In medicine, an obsolete term for the severe form of malarial paroxysm: Shaking ague can be a violent attack of sickness which may be due to the sudden occurrence of symptoms, or the acute exacerbation, or the abrupt worsening, of preexisting symptoms.
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