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sunstrokes

sunstrokes is the plural of sunstroke.

Meaning of sunstroke

Noun

sunstroke (plural sunstrokes)

  1. Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.
    • But, however this may be, the grounds upon which I base my belief that "chill" in the one case, and "heat" in the other, is the most common exciting cause of these maladies, respectively, are furnished by the fact that malarious fevers are found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with that...1885, Henry Walter Bellew, The History of Cholera in India from 1862 to 1881, page 815

Questions about sunstrokes

What is sunstrokes the plural of?
Sunstrokes is the plural of sunstroke.

Words near sunstrokes in the dictionary

  1. sunstone
  2. sunstones
  3. sunstricken
  4. sunstrike
  5. sunstroke
  6. sunstrokes
  7. sunstruck
  8. sunsuit
  9. sunsuited
  10. sunsuits
  11. sunswept

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