Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
DEFIBRINATE
defibrinate
(verb) remove fibrin from (blood)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
defibrinate (third-person singular simple present defibrinates, present participle defibrinating, simple past and past participle defibrinated)
(transitive, medicine) (of blood) To remove fibrin from; to deprive of fibrin.
Source: Wiktionary
De*fi"bri*nate, v. t.
Definition: To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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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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