Meaning of cabin fever | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined space.
   uncountable
2. Typhus.
   obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Some residents of Alaska suffer⟳ from cabin fever when they remain⟳ indoors throughout the long, snowy winters.”

“Just as the body fed too long upon meat becomes a prey to that horrid disease called scurvy, so the mind⟳ fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls "cabin fever."”

“The novelty of a wilderness winter wore off. I began to suffer⟳ from cabin fever. I was so anxious to see⟳ someone that whenever I heard a car or truck motor, I jumped up on a chair to look⟳ out.”

“The certain consequence is the low typhus or cabin fever, which at all times, and at this present⟳ moment, exists in Ireland to a degree, that in any other country would create⟳ a serious alarm.”

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