Definitions

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  • adjective Afflicted with sunstroke.

Etymologies

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sun +‎ struck

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Examples

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre had it: a choking, sunstruck intimacy, with madness pulsing in the eyeballs.

    Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre had it: a choking, sunstruck intimacy, with madness pulsing in the eyeballs.

    Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre had it: a choking, sunstruck intimacy, with madness pulsing in the eyeballs.

    Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre had it: a choking, sunstruck intimacy, with madness pulsing in the eyeballs.

    Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre had it: a choking, sunstruck intimacy, with madness pulsing in the eyeballs.

    Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

  • Just as I was sure I would suffocate, we were sunstruck again as Arith brought us by that unique draconic instinct to our destination.

    Artichoke Christian Bell 2010

  • One was sunstruck, another ruptured himself badly.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • She looked sunstruck, her skin glowed, her fatigue showed in her smile.

    Beard 2010

  • Eight plane rides, four speeches, three formal news conferences and a signing ceremony in the sunstruck desert that baked his brain and got sand in his eye.

    On The Road To Damascus 2008

  • She had all her teeth and they were white, so white, and her face was clean and sunstruck.

    The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008

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