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.
CLOAKED
cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped
(adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; “leaf-clothed trees”; “fog-cloaked meadows”; “a beam draped with cobwebs”; “cloud-wrapped peaks”
cloaked, disguised, masked
(adjective) having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading; “hidden agenda”; “masked threat”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
cloaked (not comparable)
Wearing a cloak.
Covered, hidden, disguised.
Verb
cloaked
simple past tense and past participle of cloak
Anagrams
• decloak
Source: Wiktionary
CLOAK
Cloak (; 110), n. Etym: [Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtik origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st Clock.]
1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover. No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South. Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.
Cloak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloaking.]
Definition: To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal. Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. Spenser.
Syn.
– See Palliate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FATIGUE
(noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; “he was suffering from museum fatigue”; “after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue”; “the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue”; “political fatigue”
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