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.
EXPURGATED
expurgated
(adjective) having material deleted; “at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
expurgated
simple past tense and past participle of expurgate
Adjective
expurgated (not comparable)
Having had erroneous, obscene, or other objectionable material removed.
Source: Wiktionary
EXPURGATE
Ex"pur*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expurgated(); p. pr. & vb. n. Expurgating().] Etym: [L. expurgatus, p.p. of expurgare to purge, purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge, and cf. Spurge.]
Definition: To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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