The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
BESMIRCH
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
(verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; “The journalists have defamed me!”; “The article in the paper sullied my reputation”
smirch, besmirch
(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
besmirch (third-person singular simple present besmirches, present participle besmirching, simple past and past participle besmirched)
(transitive, literary) To make dirty.
Synonym: soil
(transitive) To tarnish something, especially someone's reputation.
Synonyms: debase, smear, slander
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Source: Wiktionary
Be*smirch", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besmirched; p. pr. & vb. n. Besmirching.]
Definition: To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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