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.
EXPUNGING
expunction, expunging, erasure
(noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
expunging
present participle of expunge
Noun
expunging (plural expungings)
The act by which something is expunged; a deletion.
Anagrams
• expugning
Source: Wiktionary
EXPUNGE
Ex*punge", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expunged();p. pr. & vb. n. Expunging().] Etym: [L. expungere, expunctum, prick out, expunge, settle an account, execute; ex out + pungere to prick, puncture. See Pungent.]
1. To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.
2. To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense. Sandys. Expugne the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts. Pope.
Syn.
– To efface; erase; obliterate; strike out; destroy; annihilate; cancel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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