An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ABERRATE
aberrate
(verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration; “The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens”
aberrate
(verb) diverge from the expected; “The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
aberrate (third-person singular simple present aberrates, present participle aberrating, simple past and past participle aberrated)
(intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. [mid 18th century]
(transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of. [late 19th century]
Usage notes
• The transitive sense is chiefly used in the past participle form (as aberrated).
Source: Wiktionary
Ab"er*rate, v.i. Etym: [L. aberratus, p.pr. of aberrare; ab + errare to wander. See Err.]
Definition: To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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