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Overweight   Listen
adjective
Overweight  adj.  
1.
Overweighing; excessive. (Obs.) "Of no overweight worth."
2.
Having a weight in excess of what is normal, proper, or expected; as, the doctor recommends dieting to all his overweight patients; overweight luggage will incur an extra charge.





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"Overweight" Quotes from Famous Books



... wrong vote. The 19 per cent. changes in the decisions of the women contained accordingly as many cases in which right was turned into wrong as in which wrong was turned into right, while with the men the changes to the right had an overweight of 26 per cent. The self-analysis of the women indicated clearly the reason for their mental stubbornness. They heard the arguments, but they were so fully under the autosuggestion of their first decision that they fancied that they had known all that before, and that they ...
— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg
... of obesity, and its easy relief by fasting— Overweight prevented by a limitation of the daily food and without lessening any of the powers or energies—The evolution and ...
— The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure • Edward Hooker Dewey


Words linked to "Overweight" :   stoutness, adiposis, fleshiness, corpulency, obesity


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