Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
ASSASSINATE
assassinate
(verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone’s reputation; “He assassinated his enemy’s character”
assassinate
(verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons; “Anwar Sadat was assassinated because many people did not like his peace politics with Israel”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
assassinate (third-person singular simple present assassinates, present participle assassinating, simple past and past participle assassinated)
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons. [from 17th c.]
(figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
Noun
assassinate (plural assassinates)
(obsolete) Assassination, murder.
(obsolete) An assassin.
Source: Wiktionary
As*sas"sin*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assassinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Assassinating.] Etym: [LL. assassinatus, p. p. of assassinare.]
1. To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.
2. To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly. [Archaic] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.
Syn.
– To kill; murder; slay. See Kill.
As*sas"sin*ate, n. Etym: [F. assassinat.]
1. An assassination, murder, or murderous assault. [Obs.] If I had made an assassinate upon your father. B. Jonson.
2. An assassin. [Obs.] Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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