Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
AGITATING
agitative, agitating, provoking
(adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; “a provoking delay at the airport”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
agitating
present participle of agitate
Source: Wiktionary
AGITATE
Ag"i*tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Agitating.] Etym: [L. agitatus, p. p. of agitare to put in motion, fr. agere to move: cf. F. agiter. See Act, Agent.]
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper.
2. To move or actuate. [R.] Thomson.
3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. The mind of man is agitated by various passions. Johnson.
4. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. Boyle.
5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
Syn.
– To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract; revolve; discuss; debate; canvass.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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14 June 2025
FELLOW
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
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