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.
RESILE
resile
(verb) return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; “The rubber tubes resile”
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
(verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; “He retracted his earlier statements about his religion”; “She abjured her beliefs”
bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet
(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact; “The rubber ball bounced”; “These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide”
resile
(verb) pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; “The landlord cannot resile from the lease”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
resile (third-person singular simple present resiles, present participle resiling, simple past and past participle resiled)
To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
Anagrams
• Eilers, Eisler, Leiser, Lieser, relies
Source: Wiktionary
Re*sile" (r-zl"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resiled (-zld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Resiling.] Etym: [L. resilire to leap or spring back; pref. re- re- + salire to leap, spring. See Salient.]
Definition: To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. J. Ellis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
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