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.
EXONERATE
acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate, exculpate
(verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; “The suspect was cleared of the murder charges”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
exonerate (third-person singular simple present exonerates, present participle exonerating, simple past and past participle exonerated)
(transitive, now rare) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
(obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
(transitive) To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
(transitive) To free from accusation or blame.
Synonyms: acquit, exculpate, Thesaurus:acquit
Adjective
exonerate
(archaic) Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*on"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exonerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exonerating.] Etym: [L. exoneratus, p. p. of exonerare to free from a burden; ex out, from onerare to load, onus load. See Onerous.]
1. To unload; to disburden; to discharge. [Obs.] All exonerate themselves into one common duct. Ray.
2. To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice. Burke.
3. To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.
Syn. - To absolve; acquit; exculpate. See Absolve.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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