English synonyms about - contact  

sunstroke

noun

1 sunstroke

Sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat.

synonyms: insolation, siriasis, thermic fever.

Roget 384: increase of temperature; heating etc. v.; calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction; melting, fusion; liquefaction etc. 335; burning etc. ... show more

Roget 503: disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder.    insanity, lunacy; madness ... show more

Dutch: zonneslag, heliosis, zonnesteek
Polish: udar, porażenie słoneczne, udar słoneczny


Moby thesaurus: Minamata disease, altitude sickness, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthrax, black lung, caisson disease, calenture, chilblain, coup de soleil, decompression sickness, frostbite, heat prostration, immersion foot, insolation, itai, jet lag, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning ... show more.

Find more on sunstroke elsewhere: etymology - rhymes - Wikipedia.

debug info: 0.0282