heat prostration
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of heat prostration
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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By week's end 147 people had died, mostly 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
Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began: one dead, three wounded, seven cases of heat prostration.
From Time Magazine Archive
Louise Closser Hale, 60, stage & cinema character actress, author of novels, short stories, travel memoirs; of heart failure following heat prostration; in Hollywood.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had sent my chief of staff on shore the day before to arrange an interview with General Shafter, who had been suffering from heat prostration.
From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by White, Trumbull
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