heat exhaustion

1. 1.

   a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes

   Synonymsheat prostration

   Broaderheatstroke

Questions about heat exhaustion

What does heat exhaustion mean?

heat exhaustion means "a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes".

What is another word for heat exhaustion?

Close synonyms include heat prostration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heat exhaustion a common word?

heat exhaustion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.