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.
DISEMBARKING
Verb
disembarking
present participle of disembark
Noun
disembarking (plural disembarkings)
A disembarkation.
Source: Wiktionary
DISEMBARK
Dis`em*bark", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembarked; p. pr. & vb. n. Disembarking.] Etym: [Pref. dis- + embark: cf. F. désembarquer.]
Definition: To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.
Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers. Shak.
Dis`em*bark", v. i.
Definition: To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark. And, making fast their moorings, disembarked. Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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