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heatstroke

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,253 of 15,258leans spoken

Heatstroke is collapse from being too hot for too long. Suffer heatstroke, treat heatstroke, at risk of heatstroke.

It is a medical emergency and not the same as heat exhaustion, since in heatstroke the body has stopped controlling its temperature at all and sweating may have ceased. Cooling must start before any ambulance arrives.

Neill (Sgt), No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit · Public domain

Definitions of heatstroke

  1. 1nounheatstrokeCollapse from being too hot for too long.B2+

    “Drink plenty of water and stay in the shade, or you could get heatstroke.”

heatstroke is a condition.

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heatstroke in the wild

  • Carter's life and career were cut short when he died of heatstroke while on an Italian aid mission during World War I.

    Jesse Benedict Carter

  • Heat stroke or heatstroke, is a severe heat illness.

    Heatstroke (disambiguation)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.