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.
URGES
Noun
urges
plural of urge
Verb
urges
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of urge
Anagrams
• Ruges, grues, surge
Source: Wiktionary
URGE
Urge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Urged; p. pr. & vb. n. Urging.] Etym: [L. urgere; akin to E. wreak. See Wreak, v. t.]
1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight. Pope.
2. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. My brother never Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it. Shak.
3. To provoke; to exasperate. [R.] Urge not my father's anger. Shak.
4. To press hard upon; to follow closely Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave. Pope.
5. To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.
6. To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
Syn.
– To animate; incite; impel; instigate; stimulate; encourage.
Urge, v. i.
1. To press onward or forward. [R.]
2. To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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