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.
PERISHED
Verb
perished
simple past tense and past participle of perish
Anagrams
• Hesperid, deperish, shred pie
Source: Wiktionary
PERISH
Per"ish, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Perished; p. pr. & vb. n. Perishing.] Etym: [OE. perissen, perisshen, F. périr, p.pr. périssant, L. perire to go or run through, come to nothing, perish; per through + ire to go. Cf. Issue, and see -ish.]
Definition: To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke.
Per"ish, v. t.
Definition: To cause perish. [Obs.] Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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