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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
obese
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
morbidly
▪ The mean mass of meal consumed was 557 g for the normal and 308 g for the morbidly obese subjects.
▪ There were 24 patients -- 19 women, five men, all fat. Morbidly obese, the doctors said.
▪ There is a higher suicide rate among weight-loss surgery patients than there is among the morbidly obese.
■ NOUN
patient
▪ In this study, we found that in obese patients psyllium moderately but significantly delays gastric emptying of a solid meal.
▪ Allen King in Salinas has also adopted a new approach to helping his obese patients improve the quality of their lives.
people
▪ The care bill for obese people is larger than that for victims of tobacco smoking.
subject
▪ The mean mass of meal consumed was 557 g for the normal and 308 g for the morbidly obese subjects.
▪ Total energy content should be adjusted to obtain weight loss in obese subjects.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a special summer camp for obese children and teens
▪ At least 25% of Americans are considered obese.
▪ Glenda is not just fat, she's obese.
▪ He may not be clinically obese, but he certainly needs to lose a lot of weight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If these lives are sedentary then we risk becoming unfit and obese.
▪ In some age-groups more than 50 % of women were obese.
▪ It is helpful to classify patients with Type 2 diabetes into obese and non-obese.
▪ Morbidly obese, the doctors said.
▪ Regularity of meals remains important, especially for the obese.
▪ Tables 7-1 and 7-2 include examples of the obese infant and obese child.
▪ The care bill for obese people is larger than that for victims of tobacco smoking.
▪ Those who were out-and-out obese had a 40 percent higher risk.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obese

Obese \O*bese"\ a. [L. obesus eaten away, lean; also, that has eaten itself fat, fat, stout, p. p. of obedere to devour; ob (see Ob-) + edere to eat. See Eat.] Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
obese

1650s, back-formation from obesity and in part from Latin obesus "fat, stout, plump," past participle of obedere "that has eaten itself fat" (see obesity). According to OED, "Rare before 19th c." Related: Obeseness. Latin obesus was translated in Old English as oferfæt "overfat."

Wiktionary
obese

a. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2.

WordNet
obese

adj. excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, weighty, rotund]

Usage examples of "obese".

He focused on the dot, and the dot became a huge, obese aquatic creature, a creature whose blubbery hide, tusks, and skin suited it for this frozen hell, who probably thought the weather a pleasant spring freshet.

Recently a hysterectomy patient-an obese woman who had developed a big pus pocket at the bottom of her incision, right above the pubic area-was tranfferred from the gynie floor.

Those who had taken Kenna as an obese caricature of a stupid, crooked pol over the years had generally not survived in the political arena long enough to correct their thinking.

To be sure, they are less sharply black and white than those of the Atlantic, but they are shearwaters for all that - the same voice by night in their burrows, the same solitary white egg, the same grossly obese chick.

The door slammed behind the obese man, and Dora scurried to fetch what Ruark had requested, setting out fruits, bread, and meats, while she brewed a pot of strong tea.

She was not heavy enough to be considered obese in the eyes of the world, but was merely plump enough to feel ugly inside, especially in comparison to her sleek and stylish mother, the great Italian-born couturiere, Nita Serritella.

I saw the bulging face of the jumbo jet was that it looked like an obese or edematous gomer.

The purpose of this assassination was to tip the balance of power in this city of Ardha in favor of the Assassins, whose lord and chief, the obese and unscrupulous Gurjan Tor, had ambitions of extending his invisible empire in a reign of terror which would bring even the Crown of Ardha within his greedy clutches.

Two of the other nurses and I were getting a very obese lady out of bed when she almost completely gorked out.

He was a huge Rastafarian who looked like nothing so much as an obese and enormous baby.

When the time came for the huge coordinated revolt to begin across the Old Empire, Xerxes had killed his obese father, the nominal ruler of the planet, and turned over the full resources of Rodale IX to the Twenty Titans.

The obese Staffordshire bull terrier waddled in, closely followed by the Yorkie, who bared her teeth in an ingratiating smile at all present.

One of the free fallers, an obese woman, maneuvered toward the window.

A furious struggle ensued and the mutant with the two heads turned its obese body towards the aggressors, emitting a high-pitched mewling sound.

Sleep apnea occurs about 4 times more often in obese children and in African-American children than in other children.