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.
GRIEVE
grieve, sorrow
(verb) feel grief
grieve, aggrieve
(verb) cause to feel sorrow; “his behavior grieves his mother”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
grieve (third-person singular simple present grieves, present participle grieving, simple past and past participle grieved)
(transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
(transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
(intransitive) To experience grief.
(transitive, archaic) To harm.
(transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
Etymology 2
Noun
grieve (plural grieves)
(obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
(chiefly, Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
Anagrams
• regive
Proper noun
Grieve (plural Grieves)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Grieve is the 14178th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2118 individuals. Grieve is most common among White (94.85%) individuals.
Anagrams
• regive
Source: Wiktionary
Grieve, Greeve, n. Etym: [AS. ger. Cf. Reeve an officer.]
Definition: A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.
Grieve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Grieving.] Etym: [OE. greven, OF. grever, fr. L. gravare to burden, oppress, fr. gravis heavy. See Grief.]
1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper,
2. To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. [R.]
Grieve, v. i.
Definition: To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over. Do not you grieve at this. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
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