Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
VAPORIZE
vanish, fly, vaporize
(verb) decrease rapidly and disappear; “the money vanished in las Vegas”; “all my stock assets have vaporized”
evaporate, vaporize, vaporise
(verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue; “evaporate milk”
gasify, vaporize, vaporise, aerify
(verb) turn into gas; “The substance gasified”
zap, vaporize
(verb) kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting; “in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
vaporize (third-person singular simple present vaporizes, present participle vaporizing, simple past and past participle vaporized)
(ambitransitive) To turn into vapor.
Source: Wiktionary
Vap"o*rize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaporized; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaporizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. vaporiser.]
Definition: To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially. Vaporizing surface. (Steam Boilers) See Evaporating surface, under Evaporate, v. t.
Vap"o*rize, v. i.
Definition: To pass off in vapor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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