adjective
- serving to dispel or reduce fever, as a medicine.
noun
- such a medicine or agent.
- a cooling drink.
noun
- any drug or agent for reducing fever
adjective
- serving to reduce fever
1680s, from French fĂ©brifuge, literally “driving fever away,” from Latin febris (see fever) + fugare “to put to flight” (see fugitive).
n.
- An agent that acts to reduce a fever; an antipyretic.
adj.
- Acting to reduce fever.