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.
LEECHLIKE
parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking
(adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; “a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses”; “parasitic vines that strangle the trees”; “bloodsucking blackmailer”; “his indolent leechlike existence”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
leechlike (comparative more leechlike, superlative most leechlike)
Resembling a leech or some aspect of one; clinging, parasitic.
Source: Wiktionary
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SENSE
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