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for obese
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
obese
adj 1: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent,
obese, weighty, rotund]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "obese":
adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny,
burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat,
fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy,
imposing, lusty, meaty, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly,
potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, square, squat,
squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen, thick-bodied,
thickset, top-heavy, tubby, well-fed
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