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.
IMPEDING
clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructive
(adjective) preventing movement; “the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
impeding
present participle of impede
Anagrams
• impinged
Source: Wiktionary
IMPEDE
Im*pede", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Impeding.] Etym: [L. impedire, lit., to entangle the feet; pref. im- in + pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and cf. Impeach.]
Definition: To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PROSODIC
(adjective) of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
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