obese
grossly overweight to a degree that poses a health risk
Word origin: From Latin obesus, having eaten until fat.
Obese in a sentence
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The study found that obese patients faced significantly higher surgical risks.
The longitudinal study tracked metabolic markers in patients classified as obese to isolate factors behind later cardiac risk.
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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “obese” well
Obese is a clinical term for being overweight to a degree that endangers health, more precise and medical than casual words for heaviness. In careful writing it denotes a measured health condition, not a casual insult.
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