HEATSTROKE
Dictionary entry overview: What does heatstroke mean? • HEATSTROKE (noun)
The noun HEATSTROKE has 1 sense:
1. collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat
Familiarity information: HEATSTROKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HEATSTROKE (noun)
Meaning:
Collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
heat hyperpyrexia; heatstroke
Hypernyms ("heatstroke" is a kind of...):
health problem; ill health; unhealthiness (a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heatstroke"):
heat exhaustion; heat prostration; prostration (a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes)
insolation; siriasis; sunstroke; thermic fever (sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat)
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