Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
DISCONTINUING
Verb
discontinuing
present participle of discontinue
Source: Wiktionary
DISCONTINUE
Dis`con*tin"ue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discontinued; p. pr. & vb. n. Discontinuing.] Etym: [Cf. F. discontinuer.]
Definition: To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. Shak. Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel. They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder.
Dis`con*tin"ue, v. i.
1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. Bacon.
2. To be separated or severed; to part. Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. Jer. xvii. 4.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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