overweight

[ adjective oh-ver-weyt; noun oh-ver-weyt; verb oh-ver-weyt ]

/ adjective ˈoʊ vərˈweɪt; noun ˈoʊ vərˌweɪt; verb ˌoʊ vərˈweɪt /

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adjective

weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.

noun

extra or excess weight above what law or regulation allows, as of baggage or freight: The overweight will cost us $12.

weight in excess of that considered normal, proper, healthful, etc.: Overweight in a child should not be neglected.

greater effect or importance; preponderance.

verb (used with object)

to weight excessively; exceed the weight limit of.

to give too much consideration or emphasis to; stress unduly.

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Origin of overweight

First recorded in 1545–55; over- + weight

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How to use overweight in a sentence

They were heritors of estates heavily overweighted with the debts of a bygone generation.
Is Ulster Right?|Anonymous
I took the nest from the weeping and overweighted ash and put it carefully back in the hedge by the tennis-lawn.
Happy Days|Alan Alexander Milne
Only, in his pictures as well as in his soul, abstraction prevails too much, and the sensuous is overweighted by the intellectual.
The Aesthetical Essays|Friedrich Schiller
There was a little cry; and then flying low, overweighted with his burden, he skimmed across the field.
Lives of the Fur Folk|M. D. Haviland

But there was too much of it; it overweighted the small head.
The Open Question|Elizabeth Robins

British Dictionary definitions for overweight

overweight

adjective (ˌəʊvəˈweɪt)

weighing more than is usual, allowed, or healthy

finance

having a higher proportion of one's investments in a particular sector of the market than the size of that sector relative to the total market would suggest: portfolio managers are currently overweight in bonds
(of a fund etc) invested disproportionately in this way

noun (ˈəʊvəˌweɪt)

extra or excess weight

archaic greater importance or effect

verb (ˌəʊvəˈweɪt) (tr)

to give too much emphasis or consideration to

to add too much weight to

to weigh down

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