Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
SPOLIATE
Etymology
Verb
spoliate (third-person singular simple present spoliates, present participle spoliating, simple past and past participle spoliated)
(transitive, obsolete) To plunder
Synonyms: pillage, despoil, rob
(intransitive, obsolete) To engage in robbery; to plunder.
Anagrams
• lipoates
Source: Wiktionary
Spo"li*ate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Spoliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Spoliating.] Etym: [L. spoliatus, p.p. of spoliare spoil. See Spoil, v. t.]
Definition: To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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