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obese (oh BEES) (adjective), more obese, most obese
1. Descriptive of being excessively fat and grossly overweight: A neighbor told Karen that her obese, or corpulent, dog looked like a big sausage walking on legs.
2. Etymology: from Latin ob-, "completely" + edere, "to eat".
An obese or corpulent person.
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Pertaining to a very fat person.
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