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.
GRIEVING
bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing
(adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation; “bereft of hope”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
grieving
present participle of grieve
Noun
grieving (plural grievings)
An act or instance of feeling or expressing grief.
Anagrams
• regiving
Source: Wiktionary
Griev"ing, a.
Definition: Sad; sorrowful; causing grief.
– n.
Definition: The act of causing grief; the state of being grieved.
– Griev'ing-ly, adv. Shak.
GRIEVE
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
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
3 April 2025
WHOLE
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
Coffee Trivia
