Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
ERASURE
expunction, expunging, erasure
(noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
erasure
(noun) a surface area where something has been erased; “another word had been written over the erasure”
erasure
(noun) a correction made by erasing; “there were many erasures in the typescript”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
erasure (countable and uncountable, plural erasures)
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
The state of having been erased; total blankness.
The place where something has been erased.
(sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
Synonyms
• (action of erasing): cancelation (US), cancellation (British), canceling (US), cancelling (British), deleting, deletion, erasing, obliterating, obliteration, wiping
• (state of having been erased): blankness
Hyponyms
• type erasure
Source: Wiktionary
E*ra"sure, n. Etym: [From Erase.]
Definition: The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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