DEBRIEF

debrief

(verb) put someone through a debriefing and make him report; “The released hostages were debriefed”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

debrief (third-person singular simple present debriefs, present participle debriefing, simple past and past participle debriefed)

(transitive) To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain intelligence.

(transitive) To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project in order to learn from mistakes etc.

(transitive) To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.

Anagrams

• briefed, defiber, fibered, firebed

Source: Wiktionary



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WHOLE

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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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