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.
RESUMING
Verb
resuming
present participle of resume
Anagrams
• gum resin, gum-resin
Source: Wiktionary
RESUME
Re`su"mé", n. Etym: [F. See Resume.]
Definition: A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation. The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book. C. Kingsley.
Re*sume", v. t. [imp & p. p. Resumed;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] Etym: [L. resumere, resumptum; pref. re- re- + sumere to take: cf. F. résumer. See Assume, Redeem.]
1. To take back. The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave. Denham. Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood. Sir W. Scott.
2. To enter upon, or take up again. Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled. Dryden.
3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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