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heat prostration
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Definition:heat exhaustion---n 1: a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes[syn: heat exhaustion, prostration]Princeton University. WordNet (2006) https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
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what he was suffering from right this minute was heat prostration.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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“I got hold of a queer fish at St. Martin’s the other day—case of heat-prostration picked up in Central Park. When we’d patched him up I found he had nowhere to go, and not a dollar in his pocket, and I sent him down to our place at Portchester to re-build.”
Edith Wharton. Tales of Men and Ghosts: The Legend (1910)
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her situation is critical. But just now she is only prostrated by the heat of the weather, and by the excitement of her cousin’s visit,
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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