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.
BEMUSED
baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea
(adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; “obviously bemused by his questions”; “bewildered and confused”; “a cloudy and confounded philosopher”; “just a mixed-up kid”; “she felt lost on the first day of school”
bemused, lost, preoccupied
(adjective) deeply absorbed in thought; “as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class”; “lost in thought”; “a preoccupied frown”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
bemused
simple past tense and past participle of bemuse
Adjective
bemused (comparative more bemused, superlative most bemused)
deeply thoughtful; preoccupied
perplexed and bewildered
Source: Wiktionary
BEMUSE
Be*muse", v. t.
Definition: To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CHRONIC
(adjective) being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering; “chronic indigestion”; “a chronic shortage of funds”; “a chronic invalid”
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