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.
OVERTAX
overtax
(verb) tax excessively; “Don’t overtax my constituents!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
overtax (third-person singular simple present overtaxes, present participle overtaxing, simple past and past participle overtaxed)
To tax to an excessive degree
To overburden
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*tax", v. t.
Definition: To tax or to task too heavily.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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