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.
TROUBLING
distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying
(adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety; “distressing (or disturbing) news”; “lived in heroic if something distressful isolation”; “a disturbing amount of crime”; “a revelation that was most perturbing”; “a new and troubling thought”; “in a particularly worrisome predicament”; “a worrying situation”; “a worrying time”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
troubling (comparative more troubling, superlative most troubling)
distressing, worrying
Verb
troubling
present participle of trouble
Noun
troubling (countable and uncountable, plural troublings)
The infliction of trouble or distress.
Even more important in contributing to a sense of welfare, we both made drawings all the morning, and have laid at rest the troublings of artistic conscience.
Source: Wiktionary
TROUBLE
Trou"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Troubled; p. pr. & vb. n. Troubling.] Etym: [F. troubler, OF. trobler, trubler, tourbler,fr. (assumed) LL. turbulare, L. turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Gr. thorp; cf. Skr. tvar, tur,o hasten. Cf. Turbid.]
1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate. An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. John v. 4. God looking forth will trouble all his host. Milton.
2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex. Now is my soul troubled. John xii. 27. Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring. Shak. Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. Locke.
3. To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
Syn.
– To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass; annoy; tease; vex; molest.
Trou"ble, a.
Definition: Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] "With full trouble cheer." Chaucer.
Trou"ble, n. Etym: [F. trouble, OF. troble, truble. See Trouble, v. t.]
1. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity. Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise. Milton. Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles. Shak.
2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
3. (Mining)
Definition: A fault or interruption in a stratum. To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. [Colloq.] -- To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience. She never took the trouble to close them. Bryant.
Syn.
– Affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance; molestation; vexation; inconvenience; calamity; misfortune; adversity; embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow; misery.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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