reap

Speech parts

1. reap - Noun

2. reap - Verb

Meaning

To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.

To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.

To deprive of the beard; to shave.

To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

draw harvest glean pollard garner sheaf take make land get produce cut scythe win receive
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Antonyms

give attempt plant deal pay cast
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Hypernyms

garner gain collect derive gather pull together

Hyponyms

cut

Phrases with the word

reap the whirlwind reap-time reap benefits reap financial reward reap-hook

Derivatives

reaped reaping

Anagrams

aper pare pear rape Earp Pera

Examples

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love. Pythagoras

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. Adam Smith

Who sows barley cannot reap wheat. Persian Proverb

If you sow arrows, you will reap sorrows. Filipino Proverb

As you sow, so shall you reap. Bulgarian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

reanoint reanointment reanswer reap benefits reap financial reward reap hook