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.
STRANGLER
garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler, choker
(noun) someone who kills by strangling
strangler, strangler tree
(noun) an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
strangler (plural stranglers)
Someone who strangles, especially who murders by strangling.
An epiphyte whose aerial roots eventually strangle the tree on which it grows.
Source: Wiktionary
Stran"gler, n.
Definition: One who, or that which, strangles. "The very strangler of their amity." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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