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adjective

very fat or overweight; corpulent.

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Origin:
1645–55; < Latin obēsus (past participle of obedere to eat away), equivalent to ob- ob- + ed(ere) to eat + -tus past participle suffix, with dt > s

Related forms

o·bese·ly, adverb

o·be·si·ty, o·bese·ness, noun

o·ver·o·bese, adjective

o·ver·o·bese·ly, adverb

o·ver·o·bese·ness, noun

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su·per·o·bese, adjective

un·o·bese, adjective

un·o·bese·ly, adverb

un·o·bese·ness, noun

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Example Sentences

One insists that government must use its legislative power to slim down an increasingly obese nation.

She was morbidly obese and had great difficulty walking even at the slowest pace.

People drive less when they have less to do, hence are rendered obese by virtue of being jobless.

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One insists that government must use its legislative power to slim down an increasingly obese nation.

She was morbidly obese and had great difficulty walking even at the slowest pace.

People drive less when they have less to do, hence are rendered obese by virtue of being jobless.

Other studies have suggested that cloned mice are much more likely to become obese in middle age.

The restaurants were full of obese people eating these double-sized portions.

Moderately obese people live two to five years less than normal-size folks.

To examine the long-term weight loss and safety of an experimental weight-loss drug in obese adults.

In my opinion, once someone has become obese its reasonable to view it as a medical condition that must be treated.

In not so short, being fat and being obese are correlated but not the same.

Studies have shown that obese women tend to have overweight children, even before dietary factors kick in.

Consistent with this, the brains of obese people often show signs of damage.

But i guess this kind of studies are needed in the land of the obese.

The animals have a tendency to overeat and become obese.

Early on, you'll find an obese hamster you'll need to exercise using a boxful of toys.

People no longer need to be quite as obese as before to qualify for weight loss surgery.

After all is not the real problem the cost obese people put on social programs.

Blacks, older people of any race, diabetics and obese individuals all show above average sensitivity to salt in their diets.

And let's be careful with the weight limit on supposedly obese people.

They tracked the animals' percentage weight gain per decade, as well as their odds of being obese.

Obese people produce a lot of leptin and some develop metabolic syndrome.

The researchers also examined the effects of perilipin in mice genetically programmed to be obese.

We have the highest percentage of overweight and obese patients in the industrialised world.

We know that women who are obese have a greater risk of breast cancer.

Almost a quarter of men and two-fifths of women are obese.

Your call for reform is akin to ask a terminally ill obese patient to start jogging and dieting.

Hilliard was part of a team examining an obese patient whose low blood pressure and rapid heart rate suggested a.

Americans are obese because they are stressed and using food to self-medicate.

Obese surgical patients were far less likely to die of a couple of specific respiratory problems than were non-obese.

The goal is to make them as fat as possible, cripplingly obese in fact, as fat wives are a matter of prestige to their husbands.

The research makes spotting the future obese child look simple, but the reality is more complex.

People who are obese or insulin-resistant often develop fatty liver disease.

Researchers find more evidence that babies born to obese women are at increased risk of spina bifida and other birth defects.

Making it an offense to cause your children to become obese may also help.

Obese women with advanced ovarian cancer have a shorter time to recurrence and a shorter.

Santa could be some sort of alien or an obese robot from the future.

The share of obese people is about the dame as their share in the population.

The only cure to being obese or overweight is will power.

The scientists say that previous studies showed that obese individuals actually walk differently than those of average weight.

It no longer suffers from an arthritic labour market, an obese state or a suffocating tax burden.

Many people tend to think that all obese people have to do to solve their problems is eat less and move more.

Most doctors have no training in weight management and nutrition and can do little to help their obese patients lose weight.

By being heavy, an obese person is already causing the plane to burn more fuel.

There are all sorts of jobs where being fat or even obese need not affect your performance:.

Americans are obese because of eating too much sugar.

Invest in the future character of our citizens through taxes on non-nutritious foods and denying driver's licenses to obese kids.

We are an obese country that doesn't want to have to take the time and energy needed to lose weight and follow a balanced diet.

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World English Dictionary

obese (əʊˈbiːs)

—*adj*
	excessively fat or fleshy; corpulent

[C17: from Latin obēsus, from ob- (intensive) + edere to eat]

o'besity

—n

o'beseness

—n

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Word Origin & History

obese

1650s, from L. obesus, pp. of obedere (see obesity).

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Medical Dictionary

obese o·bese (ō-bēs')
adj.
Extremely fat; very overweight.

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"The obese is ... in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy."

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