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Meaning of summit fever | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The compulsion to reach the summit of a mountain at all costs.
    uncountable
  2. The obsessive urge to complete a task.
    broadly, figuratively, uncountable

Examples

“Now that we were so close on Kilimanjaro, summit fever was taking me again.”
“We suffer from summit fever. We push just a little harder, hoping we can rest when we get to the top. When we postpone an oasis until our to-do list is finished or until we've answered all of the 193 emails in our in-box, then we have summit fever.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

summit tunnel summit-hopper summit, peak, top, hilltop summiteer summiter summiting

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