adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grossly overweight
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Lambert was grossly overweight .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
grossly
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In the inevitable lecture series that followed, few would be intrigued by a grossly overweight , fortyish prude.
slightly
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Two young men, both slightly overweight , have lost their strong Liver pool accents during their years in the secure units.
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But why treat slightly overweight people who have no other signs of illness?
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You often find, for example, that teenage girls who are just slightly overweight see themselves as massively obese.
■ NOUN
people
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These would almost certainly be the overweight people , and this is something you can observe for yourself in almost any restaurant.
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But why treat slightly overweight people who have no other signs of illness?
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The overweight people would eat more rapidly than the slim people.
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This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people.
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The overweight people in this experiment, however, kept eating at the same fast pace throughout the meal.
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The overweight people tend to eat in a non-stop motion.
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The more heavily overweight people are, the more swiftly they can shed surplus fat on a slimming diet.
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Breathing is affected and bronchitis is more likely to occur in overweight people .
woman
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Take the example of a very overweight woman with high blood pressure and angina whose cholesterol level is normal.
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Suddenly this flabby and overweight woman decided to do what younger and more athletic daredevils had shrunk from doing.
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I remember still, though, a photograph of nude, overweight women being made to run through a wet courtyard.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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overweight luggage
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I'm 15 pounds overweight .
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My mother is about 50 pounds overweight .
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People who are grossly overweight are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure.
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The doctor said I was slightly overweight and that I needed more exercise.
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The majority of overweight people who diet tend to gain the weight back within a few years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Five feet six, he was overweight for his height and his body resembled a large turnip in shape.
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He says he's a ton overweight .
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I am very well aware of the sensitivity of anyone who is overweight .
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If you are female and less than one stone overweight .
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It can often arise even when people are a mere few pounds overweight .
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Melissa Kirk Berkeley For the record, I am an overweight male or, if you prefer, a fat guy.
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Suddenly this flabby and overweight woman decided to do what younger and more athletic daredevils had shrunk from doing.
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This sets a bad example to teenagers, many of whom are overweight and eat too much junk food.