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.
GREATEN
Etymology
Verb
greaten (third-person singular simple present greatens, present participle greatening, simple past and past participle greatened)
(intransitive) To become great or large; increase; dilate.
(intransitive, obsolete) To become great with child; become pregnant.
(transitive) To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase.
Antonyms
• decrease, lessen
Anagrams
• grantee, negater, reagent, rentage, reägent
Source: Wiktionary
Great"en, v. t.
Definition: To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. [R.] A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his king]. Ken.
Great"en, v. i.
Definition: To become large; to dilate. [R.] My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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POLYGENIC
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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