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.
ALCOHOLIZE
alcoholize, alcoholise
(verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting; “alcoholize prunes”
alcoholize, alcoholise
(verb) treat or infuse with alcohol; “alcoholize the fruit and let them sit in the refrigerator”
alcoholize
(verb) subject to the influence of alcohol; “After we finished dinner, we were thoroughly alcoholized”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
alcoholize (third-person singular simple present alcoholizes, present participle alcoholizing, simple past and past participle alcoholized)
To convert into alcohol by fermentation, or to increase the concentration of alcohol by rectification
To infuse or saturate with an alcoholic spirit
To subject to the influence of alcohol
(obsolete) To reduce to a fine powder
Source: Wiktionary
Al"co*hol*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alcoholized; p. pr. & vb. n. Alcoholizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. alcooliser.]
1. To reduce to a fine powder. [Obs.] Johnson.
2. To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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