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.
RAVAGE
ravage, depredation
(noun) (usually plural) a destructive action; “the ravages of time”; “the depredations of age and disease”
harry, ravage
(verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)
(transitive) To devastate or destroy something.
(transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
(intransitive) To wreak destruction.
Noun
ravage (plural ravages)
Grievous damage or havoc.
Depredation or devastation
Source: Wiktionary
Rav"age (; 48), n. Etym: [F., fr. (assumed) L. rapagium, rapaticum, fr. rapere to carry off by force, to ravish. See Rapacious, Ravish.]
Definition: Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul Addison.
Syn.
– Despoilment; devastation; desolation; pillage; plunder; spoil; waste; ruin.
Rav"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Ravaging.] Etym: [F. ravager. See Ravage, n.]
Definition: To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume. Already Cæsar Has ravaged more than half the globe. Addison. His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away. Macaulay.
Syn.
– To despoil; pillage; plunger; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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