fevered

Etymology

fever + -ed

adj

1. Affected by a fever; feverish.
2. Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
   Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game. November 14, 2014, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman
   To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S. 2010, Noam Chomsky, “The Iranian threat”, in Z Magazine, volume 23, number 7

verb

1. simple past and past participle of fever