sunstroke

[ suhn-strohk ]

nounPathology.
  1. 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
First recorded in 1850–55; sun + stroke1

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 Foreman
  • At first I thought the unfortunate man was suffering from sunstroke, and that in course of time he would regain his reason.

  • Conversations were concerning sunstroke; while butter-making, and still more butter-keeping, was a despair.

  • The 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

sunstroke

/ (ˈsʌnˌstrəʊk) /


noun
  1. heatstroke caused by prolonged exposure to intensely hot sunlight

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