Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
GRUE
Etymology 1
Verb
grue (third-person singular simple present grues, present participle gruing, simple past and past participle grued)
(intransitive, archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.
Noun
grue (plural grues)
A shiver, a shudder.
Etymology 2
Noun
grue (uncountable)
Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
Etymology 3
Noun
grue (plural grues)
A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.
Etymology 4
Adjective
grue (not comparable)
(philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
(linguistics) Green or blue, as a translation from languages such as Welsh that do not distinguish between these hues.
Etymology 5
Noun
grue (uncountable)
(slang) Nutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons.
Anagrams
• Guer., Ruge, geru, regu, urge
Source: Wiktionary
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(adverb) in a licentious and promiscuous manner; “this young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously”
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