You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
CROCOSE
Cro"cose (kr"ks), n. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)
Definition: A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron. [Written also crokose.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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