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.
VIVIFY
animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
(verb) give new life or energy to; “A hot soup will revive me”; “This will renovate my spirits”; “This treatment repaired my health”
vivify
(verb) make more striking or animated; “his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
vivify (third-person singular simple present vivifies, present participle vivifying, simple past and past participle vivified)
(transitive) To bring to life; to enliven.
(transitive) To impart vitality.
Source: Wiktionary
Viv"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vivified; p. pr. & vb. n. Vivifying.] Etym: [F. vivifier, L. vivificare. See Vivid, -fy; cf. Vivificate.]
Definition: To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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