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Meanings of adiposis in English

Portuguese
sobrepeso
Catalan
carnositat

The property of excessive fatness.

sobrepeso
Synonyms
Examples for "overweight"
Examples for "overweight"
1
At least 40 million children over the age of five are overweight.
The Guardian
2
However, overweight is not considered serious enough to jeopardize life as yet.
Quest for the well of souls
3
Five years ago 35 year old Sara Byers was unfit and overweight.
BBC
4
Interestingly, it hasn't always been the case that overweight people lived longer.
News.com.au
5
Conclusions: Simple traffic-light charts facilitate discussion of child overweight status with parents.
Pubmed
1
But bear in mind that obesity and stoutness are not synonymous terms.
Woman / Her Sex and Love Life
2
The borrowing is often honest enough and comes of magnanimity and stoutness.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
3
His stoutness had gone, and he was as lean as Abraham Lincoln.
Mr. Standfast
4
What is the rationale for the admiration of slimness as against stoutness?
The Foundations of Personality
5
She was a large, high-bosomed woman, powerfully built, and inclined to stoutness.
The Spinners
1
This is all about rising standards of corpulence, of defining fatness upwards.
Wired
2
He was equally distinguished for his courage, his cruelty, and his corpulence.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 22: 1574-76
3
It was accepted like one boy's red hair and another's unreasonable corpulence.
Of Human Bondage
4
The consumption of RTE cereals also appears to be associated with lower corpulence.
Pubmed
5
And, in general, those predisposed to corpulence are therefore less inclined to marriage.
Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics
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