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.
DENATURALIZE
denaturalize, denaturalise
(verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship; “The former Nazi was denaturalized”
denaturalize, denaturalise
(verb) make less natural or unnatural
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
denaturalize (third-person singular simple present denaturalizes, present participle denaturalizing, simple past and past participle denaturalized)
To revoke or deny the citizenship of.
To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.
Source: Wiktionary
De*nat"u*ral*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Denaturalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Denaturalizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. dénaturaliser.]
1. To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.
2. To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize. [R.] They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. Prescott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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