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.
APPALLS
Verb
appalls
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appall
Source: Wiktionary
APPALL
Ap*pall", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Appalling.] Etym: [OF. appalir to grow pale, make pale; a (L. ad) + pâlir to grow pale, to make pale, pâle pale. See Pale, a., and cf. Pall.]
1. To make pale; to blanch. [Obs.] The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt.
2. To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. [Obs.] Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.
3. To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum. Clarendon.
Syn.
– To dismay; terrify; daunt; frighten; affright; scare; depress. See Dismay.
Ap*pall", v. i.
1. To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged. [Obs.] Gower.
2. To lose flavor or become stale. [Obs.]
Ap*pall", n.
Definition: Terror; dismay. [Poet.] Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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