Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
TOUSE
Etymology
Verb
touse (third-person singular simple present touses, present participle tousing, simple past and past participle toused)
(transitive) To rumple, tousle
(transitive) To pull to pieces.
Noun
touse (plural touses)
a noisy disturbance
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
Touse, Touze, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Toused; p. pr. & vb. n. Tousing.] Etym: [OE. tosen sq. root64. See tease, and cf. Tose, Toze. ]
Definition: To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.
Touse, n.
Definition: A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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