Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
CONTRIST
Etymology
Verb
contrist (third-person singular simple present contrists, present participle contristing, simple past and past participle contristed)
(transitive, obsolete) To make sad, to upset.
Anagrams
• crottins, strontic
Source: Wiktionary
Con*trist", v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. contrister. See Contristate.]
Definition: To make sad. [Obs.] To deject and contrist myself. Sterne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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