Definition of "pyretic" []

• Relating to, producing, or affected by fever. (adjective)

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• "It also has digestive, anti-inflammatory, anti-pyretic and blood purifying properties."
• "The example of restraint which would have resulted from the sparing of the dictator's life, and possibly encouraged similar expressions from opposition forces sympathetic to Saddam, has been tossed aside in Bush and Maliki's pyretic rush forward to some imagined crushing victory that they would gamble even more of our soldiers 'lives to achieve."
• "I mean, how would you feel about my credentials (a pharmacist) if I confused anti-pyretic (fever reducing) with pruritus ani (chronic itching of the skin around the anus)."