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Definition of Overweights
1. overweight [v] - See also: overweight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overweights
Literary usage of Overweights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Skin and Venereal Diseases (1909)
"Bright's disease, both acute and chronic, is nearly twice as prevalent among
overweights as in our general experience. This excess can probably be ascribed ..."
2. The Mortality from Cancer Throughout the World by Frederick Ludwig Hoffman (1916)
"Dividing the male applicants into three classes; that is, first, overweights, or
those whose weight at entry was 50 pounds or more above normal weight, ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"Dividing the applicants into three classes,— that is, overweights, or those whose
... At ages 30-44 the cancer mortality of overweights was 3.7 per 10000, ..."
4. Voyages to the East-Indies by Johan Splinter Stavorinus (1798)
"... they (hall receive for that which they gain by the allowed overweights and
... quantity delivered at that price does not exceed the allowed overweights ..."
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