Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being excessively fat; obesity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bulkiness or largeness of body; fullness of form, usually due to great fatness; fleshiness; portliness.
- noun Density or solidity of matter; body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.
- noun obsolete Thickness; density; compactness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or characteristic of being
corpulent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of excessive fatness
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lo, if she walk in the West, so cumbrous her corpulence is The
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879
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Of great concern is that this corpulence has definitively been linked to the youthful onset of diabetes and hypertension, and to strokes and heart attacks in middle age.
Edward Flattau: Food Foolery Edward Flattau 2011
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Low-slung pants too tight above exposed midsections create an impression of corpulence for all but the anorexic woman.
The Consensus-Driven Society « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Haynesworth will "have plenty of chances to drop the quarterback," and also have "plenty of chances to stop being the NFL's running joke for corpulence and bad attitude."
Danny Groner: Patriots Gamble on Ochocinco and Haynesworth Danny Groner 2011
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The entry claimed that in the past alchemists had said dew was capable of dissolving gold and had some virtue in correcting any disposition to corpulence.
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Low-slung pants too tight above exposed midsections create an impression of corpulence for all but the anorexic woman.
November « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Haynesworth will "have plenty of chances to drop the quarterback," and also have "plenty of chances to stop being the NFL's running joke for corpulence and bad attitude."
Danny Groner: Patriots Gamble on Ochocinco and Haynesworth Danny Groner 2011
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Of great concern is that this corpulence has definitively been linked to the youthful onset of diabetes and hypertension, and to strokes and heart attacks in middle age.
Edward Flattau: Food Foolery Edward Flattau 2011
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The ever-expanding corporate CEO corpulence, like any unrestrained overgrowth, is lethal, and corporations and their CEOs, who rake in the dough, even after running the companies they head into the ground, are well on their way to killing their host.
Iris Erlingsdottir: Wells Fargo 125% Fee Hike Iris Erlingsdottir 2011
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It is an art of the body, of corpulence and skinniness, flatulence and dropsy, of comic priggishness and irrepressible lust.
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