In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
REOPERATE
Etymology
Verb
reoperate (third-person singular simple present reoperates, present participle reoperating, simple past and past participle reoperated)
(intransitive, surgery) to operate (surgically) again (on the same thing as a previous operation).
(intransitive) to begin to operate or function again.
(transitive, manufacturing) to bring back (something) into operation.
AntonĂ and Consuela reoperated the factory's candy machine that had been stored in the storage room for over a decade.
Source: Wiktionary
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NEGLECT
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
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