Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
PASTEURIZE
pasteurize, pasteurise
(verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms; “pasteurize milk”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
pasteurize (third-person singular simple present pasteurizes, present participle pasteurizing, simple past and past participle pasteurized)
(transitive) To heat food for the purpose of killing harmful organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, molds, and yeasts.
Source: Wiktionary
Pas*teur"ize, v. t.
1. To subject to pasteurization.
2. To treat by pasteurizm.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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