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Meanings of sunstroke in English
A body temperature greater than 40.6 °C due to environmental heat exposure with lack of thermoregulation.
Usage of sunstroke in English
1
There will be bones broken, apparently; cases of sunstroke; regrettable deaths, perhaps.
2
My skin color must have changed from UV-lamp tan to sunstroke red.
3
But O'Gara applied the balm that stopped it from developing into sunstroke.
4
They found Halloran unconscious and delirious, a victim of dehydration and sunstroke.
5
Men on the verge of sunstroke plied their tasks mechanically, like automatons.
6
Yates sat down as limp as if he had had a sunstroke.
7
You'll catch a sunstroke down there and die on my doorstep perhaps.
8
I believe it's sunstroke, for I sat out yesterday without a hat.
9
But if it were a sunstroke-lookhere, I'll go with you myself.
10
I'm more afraid of a sunstroke than of spooks, for my part.
11
I'm Doctor Baring Hartley, in charge of this sunstroke case aboard here.
12
Not forgetting dehydration and chapped thighs, sunstroke, windburn, freak accidents and disasters.
13
We're seeing a whole range of heat-related conditions, including sunstroke and heat exhaustion.
14
They said we had sunstroke and made us take a nap.
15
The city heats are pursuing the people with torch and fear of sunstroke.
16
She had never had a sunstroke; she had never even heard of one.
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Sunstroke across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common