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.
BLENCH
pale, blanch, blench
(verb) turn pale, as if in fear
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
blench (third-person singular simple present blenches, present participle blenching, simple past and past participle blenched)
(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
(intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
(transitive) To deceive; cheat.
(transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
(transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
(intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
Noun
blench (plural blenches)
A deceit; a trick.
A sidelong glance.
Etymology 2
Verb
blench (third-person singular simple present blenches, present participle blenching, simple past and past participle blenched)
(obsolete) To blanch.
Source: Wiktionary
Blench, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Blenching.] Etym: [OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS. blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See Blink, and cf. 3d Blanch.]
1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey.
2. To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.] Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. Shak.
Blench, v. t.
1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.] Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. Sir T. More.
2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.] He now blenched what before he affirmed. Evelyn.
Blench, n.
Definition: A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.
Blench, v. i. & t. Etym: [See 1st Blanch.]
Definition: To grow or make pale. Barbour.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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