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.
INTERVENES
Verb
intervenes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intervene
Source: Wiktionary
INTERVENE
In`ter*vene", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Intervened; p. pr. & vb. n. Intervening.] Etym: [L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See Come.]
1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
2. To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
3. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
4. In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. Abbott.
In`ter*vene", v. t.
Definition: To come between. [R.] Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. De Quincey.
In`ter*vene", n.
Definition: A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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