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.
HAUNTING
haunting, persistent
(adjective) continually recurring to the mind; “haunting memories”; “the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty”- Claudia Cassidy
haunting
(adjective) having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect; “from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration”-Charles Lee
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
haunting
present participle of haunt
Adjective
haunting (comparative more haunting, superlative most haunting)
Remaining in the mind; not easily forgotten.
Noun
haunting (plural hauntings)
A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.
Anagrams
• Nighantu, nighantu, unhating
Source: Wiktionary
HAUNT
Haunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] Etym: [F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). sq. root36.]
1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.
2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition. Foul spirits haunt my resting place. Fairfax.
3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.] That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. Chaucer. Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. Ascham.
4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Haunt thyself to pity. Wyclif.
Haunt, v. i.
Definition: To persist in staying or visiting. I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak.
Haunt, n.
1. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
Note: In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt.
Note: Often used figuratively. The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure. Keble. The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. Tennyson.
2. The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.] The haunt you have got about the courts. Arbuthnot.
3. Practice; skill. [Obs.] Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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