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.
ENERVATING
debilitative, enervating, enfeebling, weakening
(adjective) causing debilitation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
enervating
present participle of enervate
Adjective
enervating (comparative more enervating, superlative most enervating)
That enervates.
Anagrams
• venerating
Source: Wiktionary
ENERVATE
E*ner"vate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enervated; p. pr. & vb. n. Enervating.] Etym: [L. enervatus, p. p. of enervare, fr. enervis nerveless, weak; e out + nervus nerve. See Nerve.]
Definition: To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.
Syn.
– To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
E*ner"vate, a. Etym: [L. enervatus, p. p.]
Definition: Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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