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.
AGRISED
Verb
agrised
simple past tense and past participle of agrise
Anagrams
• Garside, argides, radgies
Source: Wiktionary
AGRISE
A*grise", v. i. Etym: [AS. agrisan to dread; a- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + grisan, for gr (only in comp.), akin to OHG. gr, G. grausen, to shudder. See Grisly.]
Definition: To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear. [Obs.] Chaucer.
A*grise", v. t.
1. To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe. [Obs.] Wyclif.
2. To terrify; to affright. [Obs.] His manly face that did his foes agrise. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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