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.
CONVICTING
Verb
convicting
present participle of convict
Source: Wiktionary
CONVICT
Con*vict", p.a. Etym: [L. convictus, p.p. of convincere to convict, prove. See Convice.]
Definition: Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] Shak. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.
Con"vict, n.
1. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
2. A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
Syn.
– Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal.
Con*vict", v. t. [imp. & p.p. Convicted; p.pr. & vb.n. Convicting.]
1. To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience. He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury. Macaulay. They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. John viii. 9.
2. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
3. To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove. Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find. Hooker.
4. To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak.
Syn.
– To confute; defect; convince; confound.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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