Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
DECONSTRUCT
deconstruct
(verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
deconstruct (third-person singular simple present deconstructs, present participle deconstructing, simple past and past participle deconstructed)
(transitive, often, figurative) To break something down into its component parts.
(transitive) To analyse in terms of deconstruction (a philosophical theory of textual criticism).
(transitive) To analyse (generally).
(transitive) To critique (generally).
(transitive, especially US sports) To destroy.
Usage notes
Narrowly used as a specific kind of literary analysis and criticism; broadly used as a fancy term to mean analysis, criticism, destruction, etc.
Anagrams
• constructed
Source: Wiktionary
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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