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sunstroke

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sun·stroke  (snstrk)
n.
Heat stroke caused by exposure to the sun and characterized by a rise in temperature, convulsions, and coma. Also called insolation, siriasis.

sunstroke [ˈsʌnˌstrəʊk]
n
(Medicine / Pathology) heatstroke caused by prolonged exposure to intensely hot sunlight
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sunstrokesunstroke - sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat
heat hyperpyrexia, heatstroke - collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat
Translations
sunstroke [ˈsʌnstrəʊk] Ninsolación f
to get or catch sunstrokecoger or agarrar una insolación
to have sunstroketener una insolación

sunstroke [ˈsʌnstrəʊk] ninsolation f, coup m de soleil
to get sunstroke → attraper une insolation

sunstroke [ˈsʌnˌstrəʊk] ncolpo di sole, insolazione f
sunstroke [ˈsʌnˌstrəʊk] ncolpo di sole, insolazione f

sunstroke ضربة شمس úžeh solstik Sonnenstich ηλίαση insolación auringonpistos insolation sunčanica insolazione 日射病 일사병 zonnesteek solstikk porażenie słoneczne insolação солнечный удар solsting โรคแพ้แสงแดดจัด güneş çarpması sự say nắng 中暑


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Soon after the Island episode, Mac had a sunstroke, and was very ill for some time.
It evidently wanted to go on, and prognosticate drought, and water famine, and sunstroke, and simooms, and such things, but the peg prevented it, and it had to be content with pointing to the mere commonplace "very dry.
Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham's became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke.
 
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