Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
EXTENUATES
Verb
extenuates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extenuate
Source: Wiktionary
EXTENUATE
Ex*ten"u*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extenuated(); p. pr. & vb. n. Extenuating().] Etym: [L. extenuatus, p. p. of extenuare to make thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See Tenuity.]
1. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness. His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. Grew.
2. To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate. But fortune there extenuates the crime. Dryden. Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality. I. Taylor.
3. To lower or degrade; to detract from. [Obs.] Who can extenuate thee Milton.
Syn.
– To palliate; to mitigate. See Palliate.
Ex*ten"u*ate, v. i.
Definition: To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations. Burke.
Ex*ten"u*ate, a. Etym: [L. extenuatus, p. p.]
Definition: Thin; slender. [Obs.] Huloet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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