Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
OVEREXTEND
overstrain, overextend
(verb) strain excessively; “He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
overextend (third-person singular simple present overextends, present participle overextending, simple past and past participle overextended)
To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit.
(linguistics, transitive) To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
(chess, transitive) To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks.
Source: Wiktionary
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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