0 an illness caused by spending too much time in strong heat and light from the sun: --
Someone who is suffering from sunstroke feels dizzy and has a high temperature, but does not sweat.
And the elephant, like a man in the tropics, needs a sheltered siesta in mid-afternoon because he is susceptible to sunstroke.
Sustained high temperatures caused many people, especially the elderly to get heatstroke or sunstroke, seriously affecting millions of lives.
At first the cause of death was presumed to be sunstroke but it was subsequently diagnosed as typhoid fever.
Durrance is blinded by sunstroke before he can lead the company to safety and it is overrun and wiped out.
At the time, it was feared that much of his subsequent ill-health dates from a sunstroke that he suffered during the former of these trips.
A sunstroke (1726) resulted in intermittent mental disability, which continued for thirteen years until his death.
As temperatures increased to over, many soldiers fell to sunstroke.
These inmates suffered from lack of fresh water, sunstroke, marsh fever, and dysentery.
