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.
BOWDLERIZED
Verb
Bowdlerized
simple past tense and past participle of Bowdlerize
Verb
bowdlerized
simple past tense and past participle of bowdlerize
Source: Wiktionary
BOWDLERIZE
Bowd"ler*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowdlerized; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowdlerizing.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.]
Definition: To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.
It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowlderized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. F. Harrison.
– Bowd`ler*i*za"tion (#), n. --Bowd"ler*ism (#), n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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