What does soroche mean?
Soroche means (obsolete) altitude sickness, mountain sickness.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) altitude sickness, mountain sickness.
Men, horses, and mules occasionally perish under soroche while on the Andes; and yet some persons who never were 3,000 feet above the level of the ocean, or if so, have only been sitting in a balloon in a state of muscular quiescence, have ridiculed statements of facts such as those here noted.
I should treat soroche on the plainest principles of hydraulics.
The soroche attacks different persons in different ways.
Use soroche when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Soroche means (obsolete) altitude sickness, mountain sickness.
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Men, horses, and mules occasionally perish under soroche while on the Andes; and yet some persons who never were 3,000 feet above the level of the ocean, or if so, have only been sitting in a balloon in a state of muscular quiescence, have ridiculed statements of facts such as those here noted.
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