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.
DESTITUTE
barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent
(adjective) completely wanting or lacking; “writing barren of insight”; “young recruits destitute of experience”; “innocent of literary merit”; “the sentence was devoid of meaning”
destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken
(adjective) poor enough to need help from others
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
destitute (comparative more destitute, superlative most destitute)
(followed by the preposition "of") Lacking something; devoid
lacking money; poor, impoverished
Synonyms
• See also impoverished
Etymology 2
Verb
destitute (third-person singular simple present destitutes, present participle destituting, simple past and past participle destituted)
(transitive) To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.
Source: Wiktionary
Des"ti*tute, a. Etym: [L. destitutus, p. p. of destituere to set away, leave alone, forsake; de + statuere to set. See Statute.]
1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.
2. Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented. Heb. xi. 37.
Des"ti*tute, v. t.
1. To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [Obs.] To forsake or destitute a plantation. Bacon.
2. To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of. [Obs.] Destituted of all honor and livings. Holinshed.
3. To disappoint. [Obs.] When his expectation is destituted. Fotherby.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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