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.
OVERWASH
Etymology
Verb
overwash (third-person singular simple present overwashes, present participle overwashing, simple past and past participle overwashed)
(transitive) To wash too much or too often.
(intransitive) To become flooded.
Noun
overwash (countable and uncountable, plural overwashes)
The flow of water and sediment over the crest of a beach that does not directly return to the water body.
Anagrams
• wash over, washover
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*wash", v. t.
Definition: To overflow. Holinshed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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