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.
LANGUISH
languish, fade
(verb) become feeble; “The prisoner has been languishing for years in the dungeon”
ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish
(verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present; “She ached for a cigarette”; “I am pining for my lover”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
languish (third-person singular simple present languishes, present participle languishing, simple past and past participle languished)
(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness. [from 14th c.]
(intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness. [from 14th c.]
(intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions. [from 15th c.]
(intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful. [from 17th c.]
(transitive, obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate. [15th-17th c.]
(intransitive, now rare) To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously. [from 18th c.]
Anagrams
• haulings, haulsing, nilghaus
Source: Wiktionary
Lan"guish, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Languished; p. pr. & vb. n. Languishing.] Etym: [OE. languishen, languissen, F. languir, L. languere; cf. Gr. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and perh. to E. slack.See -ish.]
1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases. 2 Esdras viii. 31. Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me landguish into life. Pope. For the fields of Heshbon languish. Is. xvi. 8.
2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. Tennyson.
Syn.
– To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint.
Lan"guish, v. i.
Definition: To cause to dr [Obs.] Shak. Dryden.
Lan"guish, n.
Definition: See Languishiment. [Obs. or Poetic] What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish Shak. And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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