Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
DEPURATE
Etymology
Verb
depurate (third-person singular simple present depurates, present participle depurating, simple past and past participle depurated)
(transitive) To remove impurities from; to purify.
(transitive) To make impure.
Adjective
depurate (comparative more depurate, superlative most depurate)
(obsolete) Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities.
Anagrams
• epurated, reupdate, teared up
Source: Wiktionary
Dep"u*rate, a. Etym: [LL. depuratus, p. p. of depurare to purify; L. de- + purare to purify, purus clean, pure. Cf. Depure.]
Definition: Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. Boyle.
Dep"u*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depurated; p. pr. & vb. n. Depurating.]
Definition: To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse. To depurate the mass of blood. Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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