In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BESPEED
Etymology
Verb
bespeed (third-person singular simple present bespeeds, present participle bespeeding, simple past and past participle besped or bespeeded)
(transitive) To speed; cause to prosper.
Source: Wiktionary
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SUFFOCATION
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
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