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# sunstroke

«sunstroke» in Mova's school dictionary: **An illness caused by staying too long in hot sun, with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (sunstroke — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

An illness caused by staying too long in hot sun, with headache, dizziness, a high body temperature, sickness and sometimes fainting; a serious kind of heatstroke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunstroke/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In safety and health lessons you learn to prevent sunstroke: wear a hat, drink water, stay in the shade in the hottest part of the day. In first aid, move the person to a cool place, cool them down and get help. «Slip, slop, slap» (Australia) reminds children to protect themselves.

### examples

- He got sunstroke after playing football all afternoon in the heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunstroke/#x1)
- Wear a hat to avoid sunstroke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunstroke/#x2)
- Sunstroke can make you dizzy and sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunstroke/#x3)
- Drink plenty of water on hot days so you don't get sunstroke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunstroke/#x4)
- Move someone with sunstroke into the shade and cool them with water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunstroke/#x5)
- The hikers rested in the shade to avoid sunstroke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunstroke/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «get sunstroke», not «a sunstroke» (usually). Sunburn is red, burned skin; sunstroke is the body overheating — you can have one without the other.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sunstroke» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunstroke/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.