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.
INFLICT
inflict, bring down, visit, impose
(verb) impose something unpleasant; “The principal visited his rage on the students”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
inflict (third-person singular simple present inflicts, present participle inflicting, simple past and past participle inflicted)
To thrust upon; to impose.
Source: Wiktionary
In*flict", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflicting.] Etym: [L. inflictus, p.p. of infligere to strike on, to inflict; pref. in- in, on + fligere to strike. Cf. Flail.]
Definition: To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal. What heart could wish, what hand inflict, this dire disgrace Drygen. The persecution and the pain That man inflicts on infero-ior kinds. Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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