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.
EXSICCATE
exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate
(verb) lose water or moisture; “In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
exsiccate (third-person singular simple present exsiccates, present participle exsiccating, simple past and past participle exsiccated)
(transitive) To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.
Anagrams
• exiccates
Source: Wiktionary
Ex"sic*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exsiccated(); p. pr. & vb. n. Exsiccating.] Etym: [L. exsiccatus, p.p. of exsiccare to dry up; ex out + siccare to make dry, siccus dry.]
Definition: To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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