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1 —as in:
fever induced delirium

Definition

a usually brief state of mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations

She should not be left alone in case the fever returns and makes her delirious.

delirious = mentally confused

Other Uses (with this meaning)

We found her in the desert—dehydrated and delirious.

delirious = mentally confused

She was delirious with the DTs three days into alcohol withdrawal.

delirious = mentally confused

She was delirious and incoherent.

delirious = mentally confused

What all did I say while I was delirious?
S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders

delirious = in a state of mental confusion

He's been suffering from hallucinations and delirium. Ranting and raving.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

delirium = mental confusion

You fainted in church and have been in some sort of delirium ever since.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

delirium = state of mental confusion

High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

delirious = excited (and perhaps unthinking)

He was delirious when he said it.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

delirious = mentally confused

Garrett, delirious, was dumped back in his cell.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

delirious = mentally confused

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2 —as in:
delirious with joy

Definition

a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion

The basketball fans were delirious.

delirious = in a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion

Other Uses (with this meaning)

And then from the centre of the delirious fury came a cry of agony and shouts of horror.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

delirious = a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion

...the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces —
George Orwell -- 1984

delirium = intense excitement

But when they saw themselves alone in the house they succumbed to the delirium of lovers who were making up for lost time.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

delirium = a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion

The way her hair was soft around her ears made my stomach landslide with a strange, delirious emotion.
Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven

delirious = extremely happy and excited (perhaps uncontrollably so)

We should have all been delirious that she'd moved out of the basement.
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

delirious = happily excited

Foothill's band was playing their fight song over and over; their fans were delirious; their entire team had poured into the end zone to swarm the cornerback who'd scored the touchdown.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy

delirious = a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion

In the Two Minutes Hate he could not help sharing in the general delirium, but this sub-human chanting of 'B-B! ... B-B!' always filled him with horror.
George Orwell -- 1984

delirium = intense excitement

He was not any longer in the narrow white corridors in the Ministry of Love, he was in the enormous sunlit passage, a kilometre wide, down which he had seemed to walk in the delirium induced by drugs.
George Orwell -- 1984
The first soldier did not see the bread—he was not hungry—but the first Jew saw it. His ragged hand reached down and picked a piece up and shoved it deliriously to his mouth.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

deliriously = excitement or momentary joy

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