In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
DEMATERIALIZE
dematerialize, dematerialise
(verb) become immaterial; disappear
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
dematerialize (third-person singular simple present dematerializes, present participle dematerializing, simple past and past participle dematerialized)
(intransitive) to disappear by becoming immaterial.
(transitive) to cause something to disappear by becoming immaterial.
(transitive) to remove the physical materials from (a process, etc.)
Synonyms
• (disappear): disappear, disintegrate, dissolve, vanish
Source: Wiktionary
De`ma*te"ri*al*ize, v. t.
Definition: To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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