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.
BEFOUL
foul, befoul, defile, maculate
(verb) spot, stain, or pollute; “The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
befoul (third-person singular simple present befouls, present participle befouling, simple past and past participle befouled)
To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
(specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
(figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
Synonyms
• (stain or mar): besmirch, sully, tarnish
Source: Wiktionary
Be*foul", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Befouled; p. pr. & vb. n. Befouling.] Etym: [Cf. AS. bef; pref. be- + f to foul. See Foul, a.]
1. To make foul; to soil.
2. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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