caffeinated; caffeinating
Definition of caffeinate
: to get caffeine or to provide caffeine to (someone) by means of a caffeinated beverage (such as coffee)
No sitter this afternoon, so I caffeinate and stumble through the routine …— Nancy Kruger Cohen The Lady K, as locals call it, caffeinates customers in the morning …— Amy Mayer Inspired by Stephen King's how-to "On Writing," he scrawled a longhand draft of "Tietam" in six weeks, caffeinating himself through the wee hours with two-liter Diet Cokes.— Gregory Kirschling
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The first known use of caffeinate was in 1989
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