sunstroke
a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
Origin of sunstroke
1- Also called insolation, siriasis, thermic fever.
Words Nearby sunstroke
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How to use sunstroke in a sentence
I got drunk, sunstroke, and dysentery,” laughs Robert, “but I also got the girl.
The hospitals were already full of soldiers suffering as much from sunstroke as from wounds received in battle.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanAt first I thought the unfortunate man was suffering from sunstroke, and that in course of time he would regain his reason.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont | Louis de RougemontConversations were concerning sunstroke; while butter-making, and still more butter-keeping, was a despair.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas HardyThe social investigators told us that alcohol taken into the system at such a time would cause sunstroke.
The Iron Puddler | James J. Davis
The sight of these gentlemen had the effect of a sunstroke upon him; he went raving mad on the spot.
File No. 113 | Emile Gaboriau
British Dictionary definitions for sunstroke
/ (ˈsʌnˌstrəʊk) /
heatstroke caused by prolonged exposure to intensely hot sunlight
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