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.
FRIGHTEN
frighten, fright, scare, affright
(verb) cause fear in; “The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me”; “Ghosts could never affright her”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
frighten (third-person singular simple present frightens, present participle frightening, simple past and past participle frightened)
(transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
Synonyms
• See also frighten
Anagrams
• fringeth
Source: Wiktionary
Fright"en, v. t. [imp. Frightened; p. pr. & vb. n. Frightening.] Etym: [See Fright, v. t.]
Definition: To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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