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.
DAMPEN
moisten, wash, dampen
(verb) make moist; “The dew moistened the meadows”
dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break
(verb) lessen in force or effect; “soften a shock”; “break a fall”
dampen
(verb) check; keep in check (a fire)
dampen, deaden, damp
(verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; “muffle the message”
stifle, dampen
(verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity; “Stifle your curiosity”
dampen
(verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down
(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
dampen (third-person singular simple present dampens, present participle dampening, simple past and past participle dampened)
(transitive) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
(intransitive) To become damp or moist.
(transitive) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
(intransitive) To become damped or deadened.
Anagrams
• dampne, madnep
Source: Wiktionary
Damp"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dampened; p. pr. & vb. n. Dampening.]
1. To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
2. To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen. In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm. The Century.
Damp"en, v. i.
Definition: To become damp; to deaden. Byron.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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