You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
ANAGRAMMING
Verb
anagramming
present participle of anagram
Source: Wiktionary
ANAGRAM
An"a*gram, n. Etym: [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. Graphic.]
Definition: Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
An"a*gram, v. t.
Definition: To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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