Meanings of over-weight in English

I'm thick-winded, and twenty pounds over-weight-andyou talk calmly about my settling down to office work!

I would send you the letter to which it is an answer, but it would be over-weight.

My letter and my heart both threaten to be over-weight, so no more of them this time.

This letter happened to be over-weight, which gave Mark Twain a chance for some amusing exaggerations at his expense.

The NZ Transport Agency was making it easier for tankers to get over-weight permits to be allowed to carry more fuel, Ms Collins said.

Emmy Whitehouse, forty years old and not even an ounce over-weight, had suffered her own MI an hour or so after Rory Dinsmore's accident.

I would say we have almost covered the difference between first-class and tourist, if you take into account a little over-weight with my red suitcase.

In contrast, among subjects over-weight at diagnosis, there were significant direct relationships with BMI at ages 20 to 29 and 40 to 49.

PMID: 8459960 The rate of weight gain was decreased in over-weight women with gestational diabetes versus control subjects in late pregnancy (P = .05).

However, the study also show three quarter of people aged over 50 years are either objectively over-weight (44 per cent) or obese (34 per cent).

As to literary art, his writing was ponderous and over-weighted with far-fetched allusion.

Col. Hercules was a man who knew when he was over-weighted.

Over-weight by about sixty pounds and a mouth breather.

And, having noticed the drooping of his eyelids, over-weighted with lashes, she brought her hand-mirror into play again.

In Cagsaysay the natives climbed on to the housetops and threw down the cinders, which were over-weighting the structures.

Unaccountably this night, the fair fleshly presence over-weighted her intellectual distinction, to an observer bent on vindicating her innocence.