Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
COOKED
cooked
(adjective) having been prepared for eating by the application of heat
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
cooked (comparative more cooked, superlative most cooked)
Of food, that has been prepared by cooking.
(computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
(of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
(slang) Done in, exhausted, pooped.
(slang) Done in, defeated, hopeless.
Antonyms
• raw
• uncooked
Verb
cooked
simple past tense and past participle of cook
Source: Wiktionary
COOK
Cook, v. i. Etym: [Of imitative origin.]
Definition: To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.] Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms (1599).
Cook, v. t. Etym: [Etymol. unknown.]
Definition: To throw. [Prov.Eng.] "Cook me that ball." Grose.
Cook, n. Etym: [AS. coc, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.]
1. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Cook, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cooked; p.pr & vb.n. Cooking.]
1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
2. To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble;
– often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.] They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. Addison.
Cook, v. i.
Definition: To prepare food for the table.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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