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.
REPINES
Verb
repines
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of repine
Anagrams
• en prise, erepsin, perines, serpine, spirene
Source: Wiktionary
REPINE
Re*pine" (r-pn"), v. i. Etym: [Pref. re- + pine to languish.]
1. To fail; to wane. [Obs.] "Reppening courage yields no foot to foe." Spenser.
2. To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. Spenser. What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind Pope.
Re*pine", n.
Definition: Vexation; mortification. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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