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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



... anybody brought a sample truss to steelyard, he had got a little dog, just seven pounds weight, who slipped into the core of it, being just a good hay-color. He always delivered his hay in the twilight, and when it swung the beam, he used to say, 'Come, now, I must charge you for overweight.' Now, captain, have you got such an ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
... worse than the sight of a middle-aged matron tending to overweight and bulking above ...
— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells
... humanity, true understanding of the feebleness of our nature and our capacities. We do not overload an animal, merely because it evinces a willingness to make an effort. We therefore must not overweight our soul with sorrow. We must not nurse our woe. We must not have that grand, conceited idea of our nobility which demands of us a great long future of melancholy; but rather must we nurse our bodies, suspecting our liver if our soul be heavy, and blaming our chamber if our brow be ...
— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern
... and Forrester controlled him so that he drifted downward as delicately as an overweight snowflake, eddying in the slight breeze while the girls gaped at him. Forrester allowed the body to drop the last six inches out of control, so that Ed Symes landed with a heavy thump in the center of the circle. But no harm was ...
— Pagan Passions • Gordon Randall Garrett


Words linked to "Overweight" :   stoutness, fat, corpulence, fleshiness


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