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| o·bese [ ō bss ] |
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1. overweight: extremely or unhealthily fat or overweight
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2. clinically overweight: having a body weight more than 20 percent greater than recommended for the relevant height and thus at risk from several serious illnesses, including diabetes and heart disease
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| [Mid-17th century. < Latin obesus, past participle of assumed obedere "eat until overweight" < edere "eat"] |
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 o·bese·ly adverb |
 o·bese·ness noun |
 o·be·si·ty noun |
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