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sunstroke en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌnˌstɹoʊk/ (General-American)
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der. Proto-Germanic *sunnô Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ Proto-West Germanic *sunnā Old English sunne Middle English sonne English sun English stroke English sunstroke From sun + stroke.

Meanings

1. Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.
   • Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham’s became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke. 1904, Upton Sinclair, chapter 10, in The Jungle:
   • Idiopathic non-septic periencephalitis may be produced by profound grief, protracted anxiety, especially when accompanied by great overwork, partial starvation combined with the gnawing anxiety of deep poverty, and also, it is affirmed, by sunstroke. 1896, Horatio C. Wood, The Practice of Medicine, page 513:
   • But, however this may be, the grounds upon which I base my belief that "chill" in the one case, and "heat" in the other, is the most common exciting cause of these maladies, respectively, are furnished by the fact that malarious fevers are found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with that of the annual seasons of greatest change in the weather elements, namely, the spring and autumn, and moreover, with a periodicity corresponding, at least in the Punjab, for which province the statistics have been tabulated, with the triennial cycles of rainfall -- a peculiarity in which they coincide with cholera -- whilst sun-fever or sunstroke is found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with the season of highest temperature. 1885, Henry Walter Bellew, The History of Cholera in India from 1862 to 1881, page 815:

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Relateds

sunblock · sunhat · sun poisoning · sunscreen · sunburn · sun umbrella

Translations (45)

el ηλίαση (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · ko 일사병 (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · ast solazu (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · vi say nắng (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · pl udar słoneczny (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · pl porażenie słoneczne (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · cs úžeh (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · cs úpal (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · gl insolación (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · eo sunfrapo (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · az günvurma (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · pt insolação (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · crh küneş çarpması (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · de Sonnenstich (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · sk úpal (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · uk со́нячний уда́р (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · ja 霍乱 (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · es tabardillo (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · mk сончаница (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · sv solsting (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · ru со́лнечный уда́р (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · sh sunčanica (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · te ఎండదెబ్బ (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · ar ضَرْبَة شَمْس (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · tr güneş çarpması (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · fi auringonpistos (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · hu napszúrás (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · la sīriāsis (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · ca assolellada (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · nl zonneslag (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · bg слънчев удар (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · fr insolation (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · zza dırbeta tici (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · te వడదెబ్బ (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · it colpo di sole (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · ja 暑気 (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · zza tici seredayen (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · ast asoleyadura (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · da solstik (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · ca insolació (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · ja 日射病 (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · is sólstingur (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · es insolación (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · it insolazione (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) · cmn 中暑 (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays)