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corpulent

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cor·pu·lent  (kôrpy-lnt)
adj.
Excessively fat. See Synonyms at fat.
corpu·lent·ly adv.
corpulent
Adjective
fat or plump [Latin corpulentus]
corpulence n
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Adj.1.corpulentcorpulent - excessively fat; "a weighty man"
obese, rotund, weighty
fat - having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
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Spanish corpulent [ˈkɔːpjulənt] adj → corpulento/a
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She was supposed to be the most corpulent woman in England, and was accommodated on the ground-floor of the house in consequence of the difficulty of getting her up and down stairs.
No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context
They were almost as tall, and quite as corpulent as himself; but by no means to be compared with him in grandeur of habiliments, wearing no other garb than the pan.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
They never came back to see their mother, and the latter being, like many persons of active mind and dominating will, sedentary and corpulent in her habit, had philosophically remained at home.
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