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obese

[ ō-ˈbēs]

obese

adjective

Definition of obese

: having excessive body fat

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//More than a quarter of Chinese adults, or roughly 350m people, are overweight or obese; among children, the proportion is one in five, up from just one in 20 in 1995.
— The Economist, "China worries about its bulging waistlines," 28 Oct. 2019
//The findings come just a week after a report by the World Obesity Federation, which warned that there are 158 million obese children around the world.
— Jessie Yeung, CNN, "Severe obesity among 10 and 11-year-olds hits all-time high in UK," 11 Oct. 2019
//Overweight adolescents have a 70 percent chance of becoming overweight or obese adults — so helping your child make positive changes to maintain a healthy weight is important.
— Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, "How do I get my kids to exercise more?," 30 Sep. 2019
//In the United States, the percentage of obese children and adolescents has more than tripled since the 1970s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
— Laura Reiley, Anchorage Daily News, "It doesn’t matter if it’s sugary or diet: Study links all soda to an early death," 5 Sep. 2019
//In the United States, the percentage of obese children and adolescents has more than tripled since the 1970s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
— Laura Reiley, Twin Cities, "It doesn’t matter if it’s sugary or diet: New study links all soda to an early death," 5 Sep. 2019
//In the United States, the percentage of obese children and adolescents has more than tripled since the 1970s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
— Laura Reiley, The Denver Post, "New study links regular consumption of soda to health risks," 4 Sep. 2019
//In the United States, the percentage of obese children and adolescents has more than tripled since the 1970s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
— Laura Reiley, Washington Post, "Latin America’s war on obesity could be a model for U.S.," 16 July 2019
//This year’s charts show rates were particularly high among black Alabamians, with 45 percent reporting being obese, 12 percentage points higher than non-Hispanic whites in Alabama.
— Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, "9 fattest states in America (yes, one of them is Alabama)," 15 Sep. 2019

First Known Use of obese

1651, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for obese

borrowed from Latin obēsus "fat, stout," past participle of *obedere, perhaps meaning originally "to gnaw," from ob- "against" + edere "to eat" — more at ob-, eat entry 1

Note: Etymologically obēsus should mean "thin, emaciated," if the sense of the unattested verb *obedere was "to eat away, gnaw," as implied by its components. The Roman writer Aulus Gellius (Noctes Atticae 19.7.3) pointed this out and adduced a passage from the poet Laevius (who is known only from a handful of quotations from his works made by other authors), where the word apparently has the meaning "wasted." Presumably the word went reanalysis after the extinction of the verb. The grammarian Pompeius Festus construed the derivation phrasally as "made fat as if as a result of eating" ("pinguis quasi ob edendum factus").

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