Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
OVEREXPLOIT
overexploit
(verb) exploit excessively; “We should not overexploit our natural resources”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
overexploit (third-person singular simple present overexploits, present participle overexploiting, simple past and past participle overexploited)
to exploit excessively
Source: Wiktionary
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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