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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sunstroke
noun
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▪ By the end of the day they were both suffering from a mild bout of sunstroke and were also feeling a little seasick.
▪ It may indeed have been caused by sunstroke or by an epileptic seizure.
▪ Midday temperatures can be high and the major causes of chick mortality are sunstroke and overheating.
▪ She decided to rest, having treated enough cases of sunstroke to know very well how easily it was caught.
▪ She hoped she would not get sunstroke.
▪ She was suffering from sunstroke and she died within a short time.
▪ They had both loved poor little Mary Porter who died of sunstroke.
▪ Thirty-five laps into the race he was beginning to feel faint from a combination of thirst and sunstroke.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunstroke

Sunstroke \Sun"stroke`\, n. (Med.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sunstroke

1807, from sun (n.) + stroke (n.); translating French coup de soleil. Related: Sun-stricken; sunstruck.

Wiktionary
sunstroke

n. (context pathology English) heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.

WordNet
sunstroke

n. sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat [syn: insolation, thermic fever, siriasis]

Wikipedia
Sunstroke (1953 film)

Sunstroke is a 1953 Danish comedy film directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen and Bjarne Henning-Jensen.

Sunstroke (disambiguation)

Sunstroke or heat illness is a spectrum of disorders due to environmental heat exposure.

Sunstroke may also refer to:

  • Sunstroke (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Sunstroke (1953 film), a 1953 Danish film
  • Sunstroke (2014 film), a Russian film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
  • SunStroke Project, a Moldovan musical group known for representing Moldova in Eurovision Song Contest 2010
Sunstroke (song)

"Sunstroke" is a song by dance artist Chicane. The song was released on 1 June 1997 as a CD single.

Sunstroke (2014 film)

Sunstroke (Russian: Солнечный удар; translit. Solnechnyy udar) is a 2014 drama film by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov. It is set in Russia during the Red Terror in 1920 and in 1907, and is loosely based on the story Sunstroke and the book Cursed Days by Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.

Usage examples of "sunstroke".

This sunstroke, you know, is what upset you, and your brain needs rest, the doctor says.

The idea of sunstroke was so confirmed by the symptoms when he was brought to the hospital that no one thought of anything else.

His health had suffered much from exposure, low spirits, and a slight sunstroke received in Virginia.

But the practical effect of the INS action against the Royal Majesty is to deter all private American vessels from rushing to the aid of immigrants who face possible death on the water from starvation, sunstroke or drowning.

Only one man suffered from the ascent, and his sunstroke was treated in Egyptian fashion.

Having served his country, his time now was nearly all devoted to waiting, and to think fatigued and made him feel discontented, for he had had sunstroke once, and fever several times.

Socialism, soft drinks, soothsaying, sorcery, space travel, spectacles, spelling, sports, squirrels, steamboats, steel, stereopticans, the Stock Exchange, stomachs, stores, storms, stoves, streetcars, strikes, submarines, subways, suicide, sundials, sunstroke, superstition, surgery, surveying, sweat and syphilis!

But the practical effect of the INS action against the Royal Majesty is to deter all private American vessels from rushing to the aid of immigrants who face possible death on the water from starvation, sunstroke or drowning.

If we managed to break open the hatch, if we managed to get off the schooner without too many bullet holes in us, if we didn't subsequently drown, if we weren't eaten alive by sharks or barracuda or whatever else took a fancy to us during the hours of darkness, if that island were far away from our jumping-off point or, worse, didn't exist at all, then it seemed like a good idea to have a water-soaked blanket to ward off sunstroke.

As for Aiffe’s monstrous sendings, the minority willing to discuss them at all favored mass hallucinations brought on by uniform minor sunstrokes, such as had been happening all afternoon.

Thirdly, they were continually exposed to dangers, such as the epidemics so frequent in places of confinement, exhaustion, flogging, not to mention accidents, such as sunstrokes, drowning or conflagrations, when the instinct of self-preservation makes even the kindest, most moral men commit cruel actions, and excuse such actions when committed by others.

They had some interesting sunstrokes in their sickbay now, together with the usual diseases that some of the hands had found time to acquire in their few moments of free or stolen time at Simon's Town.

They would know about leaky manifolds and bad gaskets and frozen universal joints, but not about blisters or sunstroke or the need to scream.