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.
EXPULSION
expulsion, projection, ejection, forcing out
(noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance
(noun) the act of forcing out someone or something; “the ejection of troublemakers by the police”; “the child’s expulsion from school”
extrusion, expulsion
(noun) squeezing out by applying pressure; “an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube”; “the expulsion of pus from the pimple”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
expulsion (countable and uncountable, plural expulsions)
The act of expelling or the state of being expelled.
Antonyms
• impulsion
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*pul"sion, n. Etym: [L. expulsio, fr. expellere: cf. F. expulsion. See Expel.]
1. The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc. The expulsion of the Tarquins. Shak.
2. The state of being expelled or driven out.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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