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overfed

overfed \overfed\ adj. fed excessively.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overfed

1570s, from over- + fed (adj.).

Wiktionary
overfed
  1. Excessively fed, fed too much. v

  2. (en-past of: overfeed)

WordNet
overfed

adj. too well nourished

Usage examples of "overfed".

Most pets are overfed and underexercised, much too pampered and often bored.

Overfed and underexercised, they did not even run like normal children.

She would have liked to say that no chimo or chimee ever ate enough chocolate at one time to coat their entire insides with an indigestible brown layer, which was what had killed the overfed experimental subjects, the dakcha and gobhow meat animals.

The brother and sister sat in hateful silence until Charles Bromley, rotund, jovial, successful and overfed, came into the room.

The lady's husband was an overfed, pompous little man, obviously some fifteen or twenty years older than his wife, who would probably have been still selling stamps in some rural post office had he not had the wisdom to join the National Socialist Party before the Austrian Corporal came to power.

Those men are what soldiers always are: victims of their officers, and if you want to find where the French have sown their mischief, sir, then you look among those damned, overpaid, overdressed, overfed bloody officers," and Sharpe threw a scornful glance towards the Real Companïa Irlandesa's officers who seemed unsure whether or not they were supposed to follow their men northwards.

A big, fat, juicy, huge-nostriled beast so overfed that it will be too lethargic to throw me, should I choose to ride it through the Via Dolorosa in the Holy City.