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.
EMBAR
Etymology
Verb
embar (third-person singular simple present embars, present participle embarring, simple past and past participle embarred)
(archaic, transitive) To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison.
(obsolete, transitive) To prohibit, debar (someone from doing something).
Anagrams
• Amber, Brame, amber, bemar, brame, bream
Source: Wiktionary
Em*bar", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Embanking.] Etym: [Pref. em- + bar: cf. F. embarrer. Cf. Embargo.]
1. To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars. Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.
2. To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up. He embarred all further trade. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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