obese

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Sufferers of this embarrassing condition are extremely self-conscious, probably as much as the obese are aware of their weight.

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  1. adjective Extremely fat; grossly overweight. See Synonyms at fat.

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  • Fifty-one percent of elementary school children in the Rosedale area are overweight or obese, which is 10 times greater than the federal government's Healthy People 2010 objective. —  Kansas City Kansan Homepage RSS
  • The airlines 'decision to require doctors' notes follows a court ruling that carriers make a free extra seat available for the obese or disabled who require it. —  Toronto Sun
  • CHICAGO -- A striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese. —  News4Jax.com - Local News
  • CHICAGO (AP) - A striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese. —  WUSA-TV - Vodcasts
  • Almost 13 percent of Asian children were obese, along with 16 percent of whites, almost 21 percent of blacks, 22 percent of Hispanics, and 31 percent of American Indians. —  WUSA-TV - Vodcasts
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin obēsus, from past participle of *obedere, to eat away : ob-, away; see ob- + edere, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = P. obèse = Spanish Portuguese Italian obeso, from Latin obesus, fat, stout, plump, gross, literally ‘eaten up’ (having eaten oneself fat), being also used in the passive sense ‘eaten up,’ ‘wasted away,’ ‘lean,’ past participle of obedere (only in the past participle), eat up, eat away, from ob, before, to, up, + edere = English eat.
 

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