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.
SLASHED
slashed
(adjective) having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric; “a slashed doublet”; “slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining”
cut, slashed
(adjective) (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply; “the slashed prices attracted buyers”
slashed
(adjective) patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes; “brown iris...slashed with yellow”- Willa Cather
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
slashed
simple past tense and past participle of slash
Adjective
slashed (not comparable)
Having been slashed, cut or rent.
Marked with a slash.
Anagrams
• Shadles, adshels, hassled
Source: Wiktionary
Slashed, a.
1. Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture. A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves. Sir W. Scott.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.
SLASH
Slash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Slashing.] Etym: [OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF. esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E. slate, slice, slit, v. t.]
1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] King.
3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] Dr. H. More.
Slash, v. i.
Definition: To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. Spenser.
Slash, n.
1. A long cut; a cut made at random.
2. A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
3. Etym: [Cf. Slashy.] pl.
Definition: Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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LEND
(verb) bestow a quality on; “Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company”; “The music added a lot to the play”; “She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings”; “This adds a light note to the program”
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