Overweigh vs. Overweight

To have more weight than.

Being overweight or fat is having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is especially common where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary.

To weigh down excessively; overburden or oppress.

Weighing more than is normal, necessary, or allowed, especially having more body weight than is considered normal or healthy for one's age or build.

To exceed in weight, outweigh; to preponderate; to weigh down.

More weight than is normal, necessary, or allowed.

To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down.

Greater weight or importance; preponderance.

To weigh down too heavily; overload.

To give too much emphasis, importance, or consideration to.

(of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.

Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.

Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

An excess of weight.

The condition of being overweight.

(countable) An overweight person.

A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.

(transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.

(transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.

Superabundance of weight; preponderance.

Overweighing; excessive.

Having a weight in excess of what is normal, proper, or expected; as, the doctor recommends dieting to all his overweight patients; overweight luggage will incur an extra charge.

the property of excessive fatness

usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it