heat prostration
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of heat prostration
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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For the first time in a championship bout, a referee, Ruby Goldstein, called it quits after ten rounds and was lugged off to the dressing room suffering from heat prostration.
From Time Magazine Archive
What else would bring bonnie Prince Charlie to the boonies to play in sweltering humidity and wind up in West Palm Beach's Good Samaritan Hospital, a victim of heat prostration?
From Time Magazine Archive
In cold weather they are sluggish, and if they stay out too long in Arizona's searing sun, they die of heat prostration.
From Time Magazine Archive
A variety of crops were ruined, and the death toll from heat prostration ran into the hundreds.
From Time Magazine Archive
But she could not, strong-minded as she was, avert something like a heat prostration after a long walk under a burning sun, nor weeks of confinement and idleness in her room afterward.
From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
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