English
Noun
weight loss (uncountable)
- (medicine, nutrition) The reduction of total body mass due to loss of fluid, fat, tissue, etc.
- Antonym: weight gain
John achieved 25 pounds in weight loss after abstaining from soda and running two miles in the morning every day.
2025 May 11, Imogen West-Knights, “‘I lost so much weight, my husband thought I was terminally ill’: why do people lie about taking Ozempic?”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.
Translations
reduction of body mass
- Armenian: քաշի կորուստ (kʻaši korust)
- Catalan: pèrdua de pes f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (intentional) 減肥 / 减肥 (zh) (jiǎnféi), (unintentional) 體重下降 / 体重下降 (tǐzhòng xiàjiàng)
- Danish: vægttab n
- Dutch: gewichtsverlies (nl) n
- Esperanto: malpeziĝo
- Finnish: painonpudotus (desirable); painonmenetys (unwanted)
- French: perte de poids f
- German: Gewichtsverlust (de), Gewichtsabnahme f
- Greek: αδυνάτισμα (el) n (adynátisma)
- Hungarian: fogyás (hu), súlyvesztés, súlycsökkenés (hu), súlyveszteség (hu)
- Icelandic: þyngdartap n
- Italian: perdita di peso f
- Japanese: 体重減少 (たいじゅうげんしょう, taijū genshō)
- Korean: 체중감량 (chejunggamnyang), 체중감소 (chejunggamso)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vekttap n
- Nynorsk: vekttap n
- Polish: odchudzanie n
- Portuguese: perda de peso f
- Russian: похуде́ние (ru) n (poxudénije)
- Spanish: adelgazamiento (es) m, enflaquecimiento (es) m, pérdida de peso f
- Swedish: viktminskning (sv) c, viktförlust c, viktnedgång (sv) c
- Thai: น้ำหนักลด (nám-nàk-lót)
- Turkish: kilo kaybı
- Ukrainian: сху́днення n (sxúdnennja)
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