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.
RENOVATE
animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
(verb) give new life or energy to; “A hot soup will revive me”; “This will renovate my spirits”; “This treatment repaired my health”
refurbish, renovate, freshen up
(verb) make brighter and prettier; “we refurbished the guest wing”; “My wife wants us to renovate”
renovate, restitute
(verb) restore to a previous or better condition; “They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
renovate (third-person singular simple present renovates, present participle renovating, simple past and past participle renovated)
(transitive) To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.
(transitive) To restore to freshness or vigor.
Synonyms
• See also repair
Anagrams
• overneat
Source: Wiktionary
Ren"o*vate (rn"-vt), v. t. Etym: [L. renovatus, p. p. of renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New, and Renew.]
Definition: To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PUNGENCY
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
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