Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
DIRELY
Etymology
Adverb
direly (comparative more direly, superlative most direly)
In a dire manner
Anagrams
• Ridley, ridley
Source: Wiktionary
Dire"ly, adv.
Definition: In a dire manner. Drayton.
DIRE
Dire, a. [Compar. Direr; superl. Direst.] Etym: [L. dirus; of uncertain origin.]
1. Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
2. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. Milton. Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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