sunstroke
noun
a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
sunstrokes
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pluralof sunstroke.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Every year more people drop dead from sunstrokes in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other eastern cities than are killed by earthquakes in San Francisco in a thousand years, so far as we may know.
From Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam by Hubert Howe Bancroft
It has no desolating blizzards, no frost bites, and few sunstrokes.
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole
Before this was put up, they say that workmen used to fall dead with sunstrokes, on the wharves.
From To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana
There would be more sunstrokes in the world, if it were not that the shadows of dull men made such nice cool places for the others to walk in!
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
Men have been seen hard at work digging a cellar with the thermometer at 125° F. in the shade; and sunstrokes, though not unknown, are extremely rare.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
