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overweight

adjective as in heavier than average

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Especially in the U.S., where fast food restaurants are abundant and two-thirds of people are overweight or obese.

“The first version looked exactly like Rand, but he was about 50 pounds overweight,” Stinnett laughed.

I would have put him in the film even if he stayed overweight.

But I absolutely hate talking to patients about being overweight.

When students are overweight or obese, well-balanced meals are especially important.

In this particular case you forget that you asked the Question whether your letters were not overweight.

While it is dangerous to be under weight in the early years of life, it is at least as dangerous to be overweight in middle life.

You can count on the fingers of one hand all the really overweight ones you ever knew.

They are usually overweight, and there is need to reduce the amount they eat.

If he is not distinctly overweight this will do harm rather than good.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overweight, such as: corpulent, obese, pudgy, fat, heavy, and outsize.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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