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.
MISCHANCE
mishap, misadventure, mischance
(noun) an instance of misfortune
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
mischance (countable and uncountable, plural mischances)
Bad luck, misfortune.
A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.
Verb
mischance (third-person singular simple present mischances, present participle mischancing, simple past and past participle mischanced)
(ambitransitive) To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).
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Source: Wiktionary
Mis*chance", n. Etym: [OE. meschance, OF. mescheance.]
Definition: Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak.
Syn.
– Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
Mis*chance", v. i.
Definition: To happen by mischance. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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