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.
SCAPEGOATED
Verb
scapegoated
simple past tense and past participle of scapegoat
Source: Wiktionary
SCAPEGOAT
Scape"goat`, n. Etym: [Scape (for escape) + goat.]
1. (Jewish Antiq.)
Definition: A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi. 10.
2. Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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