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.
EMEND
emend
(verb) make improvements or corrections to; “the text was emended in the second edition”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
emend (third-person singular simple present emends, present participle emending, simple past and past participle emended)
(transitive) To correct and revise (text or a document).
Anagrams
• Emden, Meden, Mende
Source: Wiktionary
E*mend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emended; p. pr. & vb. n. Emending.] Etym: [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault, blemish: cf. F. Ă©mender. Cf. Amend, Mend.]
Definition: To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.
Syn.
– To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See Amend.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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