heat prostration
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- noun
- /hiːt prɒsˈtreɪʃən/
- Specialized
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agotamiento por calor
- On hot summer days, children playing outside need to stay hydrated to prevent heat prostration.
- die of heat prostration
Examples
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When people are near death from heat prostration, they usually curl up in whatever shade they can find.
Academic text (2011) -
Y ou want heat prostration?
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"If we die of heat prostration, we'll be the laughingstock of rock and roll.
Academic text (1999) -
During the marathon, several runners had to be treated for heat prostration after overheating.
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If you start feeling dizzy or weak after being outside in the sun, you might be experiencing heat prostration.
Synonyms
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4.0
A condition when you feel dizzy, sick, and weak after being very hot and not drinking enough water
A sudden illness from extreme heat that makes you faint and very tired
Antonyms
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Morphology
The noun's meaning ('exhaustion caused by heat') is directly and compositionally derived from 'heat' (high temperature) + 'prostration' (severe exhaustion), so a learner who knows both words can infer the condition. This is a transparent medical collocation and parallels expressions in many languages, making it predictable for B1 learners.
Etymology
Heat prostration may come from the simple image of someone so weak from the hot sun that they fall and lie down; prostration means lying down from great weakness and heat shows the cause. That's why the term means 'feeling dizzy, sick, and very weak from too much heat'.