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overobese en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + obese.

Meanings

1. Excessively obese.
   • In the overobese an appropriate diet should be ordered. It is better if the diet is adjusted to the point so that it just about equals the patient's caloric needs. 1957, Newell Clark Gilbert, Lester August Nalefski, Collected Papers of Dr. Newell Clark Gilbert: A Memorial Volume, page 321:
   • Her over fifty years of nerves and an overobese body could take it no more; she crumpled into a huge bundle next to the corpse. 2009, Kalpana M. Naghnoor, Abstruse, page 213:

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