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.
EXTRICATED
Verb
extricated
simple past tense and past participle of extricate
Source: Wiktionary
EXTRICATE
Ex"tri*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extricated(); p. pr. & vb. n. Extricating().] Etym: [L. extricatus, p. p. of extricare to extricate; ex out + tricae trifles, impediments, perplexities. Cf. Intricate.]
1. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles. Eustance.
2. To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.
Syn.
– To disentangle; disembarrass; disengage; relieve; evolve; set free; liberate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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