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.
DISUNITE
separate, disunite, divide, part
(verb) force, take, or pull apart; “He separated the fighting children”; “Moses parted the Red Sea”
disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint
(verb) part; cease or break association with; “She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
disunite (third-person singular simple present disunites, present participle disuniting, simple past and past participle disunited)
(transitive) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
(transitive) To separate, sever, or split.
(intransitive) To disintegrate; to come apart.
Anagrams
• nudities, unitised, untidies
Source: Wiktionary
Dis`u*nite", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disunited; p. pr. & vb. n. Disuniting.]
1. To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.
2. To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of. Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise . . . of all posterity! Milton.
Dis`u*nite", v. i.
Definition: To part; to fall asunder; to become separated. The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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POLYGENIC
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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