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.
RAVAGED
despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked
(adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; “the raped countryside”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
ravaged
simple past tense and past participle of ravage
Source: Wiktionary
RAVAGE
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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