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sunstroke
[suhn-strohk]
noun
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.
sunstroke
/ ˈʌˌٰəʊ /
noun
heatstroke caused by prolonged exposure to intensely hot sunlight
Word History and Origins
Origin of sunstroke1
Example Sentences
As soon as they landed in St. John, it was as if each cast member got sunstroke and proceeded to spend the next few days going in and out of paranoia, fear and delusion.
"He suffered a sunstroke last year because he was working under the hot sun."
Initially doctors thought she had sunstroke, says Caroline, but an MRI scan revealed it was more serious and she was flown back to the UK by air ambulance.
“I didn’t know what sunstroke was, and nobody had told me what could happen.”
On the first day, said Mr. Gao, 39, he had sunstroke.
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