overweight
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- If a person is overweight, they are above a weight that is considered normal or desirable.
- He used to be very overweight.
- (transportation) If a vehicle is overweight, it weighs more than what is allowed for safety commerce.
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- If something is overweight, it weighs above what is required or allowed.
- The luggage is overweight, please remove things that are not needed from it.
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- (transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.