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.
TROUNCES
Etymology 1
Verb
trounces
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trounce
Noun
trounces
plural of trounce
Etymology 2
Verb
trounces
(Britain, dialectal) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trounce
Noun
trounces
(Britain, dialectal) plural of trounce
Anagrams
• Counters, Cutrones, construe, cornutes, counters, countres, recounts
Source: Wiktionary
TROUNCE
Trounce, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Trouncing.] Etym: [F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See Truncheon.]
Definition: To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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MECHANISM
(noun) the technical aspects of doing something; “a mechanism of social control”; “mechanisms of communication”; “the mechanics of prose style”
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