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sun fever

sun fever noun: a feverish condition brought on by overheating in the sun; sunstroke.

Noun

sun fever (countable and uncountable, plural sun fevers)

  1. A feverish condition brought on by overheating in the sun; sunstroke.
    • Recently, instances of ictus soils, or solar asphyxia, as it is more correctly called, have been much less frequent; but in the mean time, cases of solar or sun fever have increased rapidly throughout the city.1851, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal - Volume 7, page 264
    • In malaria and sun fever the patient has frequent chills, which differ in some respects, a fact which is of great diagnostic value.1898, Medical News - Volume 73, page 269

Examples of sun fever in a sentence

  • Her lips were swollen real bad and it looked like she had the sun fever.2013, Carole A. Powell, Turnabout, page 31:
  • “This is more than sun fever,” their mother said.2013, Alan Sorem, Time: Jesus in Relationships, page 70:

Forms of sun fever

pluralsun fevers

Questions about sun fever

What does sun fever mean?
Sun fever means a feverish condition brought on by overheating in the sun; sunstroke.
How do you use sun fever in a sentence?
Her lips were swollen real bad and it looked like she had the sun fever.
What part of speech is sun fever?
Sun fever is a noun.
What is the plural of sun fever?
The plural of sun fever is sun fevers.

Words near sun fever in the dictionary

  1. sun deity
  2. sun disc
  3. sun discs
  4. sun dog
  5. sun dogs
  6. sun fever
  7. sun fevers
  8. sun filter
  9. sun filters
  10. sun fruit
  11. sun gear

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