sunstroke

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I dared not sit still, lest a sunstroke should be added, and there was no resource but to hop or crawl down the rugged path, in the hope of finding a forked sapling from which I could extemporize a crutch.

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  1. noun Heat stroke caused by exposure to the sun and characterized by a rise in temperature, convulsions, and coma. Also called insolation, siriasis.

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  • Doctor Talmage says that with Saint Paul it was a sunstroke, and this may be so, for surely Saul of Tarsus on his way to Damascus to persecute Christians was not in love. —  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3
  • Clearly, no one involved in planning this year's council meeting anticipated the danger of sunstroke -- and how it might publicly spawn an idea as barmy (and British) as creating a "Labor House of Lords." —  MRZine.org
  • Some of the measures which must be taken in this case are: use protection substances and put something on your head so that you are not touched of sunstroke, avoid changing low temperatures with high ones. travel are one of the first steps you have to take when preparing for a trip. —  ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
  • Yes! and there are a great many more that belong to the tropics; as there is such a thing as sunstroke, which is, perhaps, as dangerous as the cramping cold from the icebergs of the north. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
  • 'No removing hats at present on account of sunstroke, and colds in the head, and doctor's orders. —  The Magic Pudding
 

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/ˈsənstroʊk/
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