Reap

Definitions: Reap

Reap

Verb

1. Gather, as of as crops.

2. Get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Reap

Acquisition

Profit; make profit, draw profit, turn a quick profit; turn to profit, turn to account; make capital out of, make money by; obtain a return, reap the fruits of; reap an advantage, gain an advantage; turn a penny, turn an honest penny; make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill; make money, coin money, raise money; raise funds, raise the wind; fill one's pocket; (wealth).

Find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together; get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw, get in the harvest.

Agriculture

Verb: cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset.

Effect

Take the consequences, sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.

Failure

Be all over with, be all up with; explode; dash one's hopes; (disappoint); defeat the purpose; sow the wind and reap the whirlwind, jump out of the frying pan into the fire, go from the frying pan into the fire.

Improvement

Be better; Adjective:, be improved by; turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.

Reward

Get for one's pains, reap the fruits of.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Success

Speed; make progress; (advance); win one's way, make one's way, work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper; drive a roaring trade; make profit; (acquire); reap the fruits, gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil , gain a windfall; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn to account; (use).

Taking

Reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather; (get); draw.

Utility

Find one's account in, find one's advantage in; reap the benefit of; (be better for). render useful; (use).

Wrong

Do wrong; Noun: be inequitable; Adjective: favor, lean towards; encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch and take an ell, give an inch and take an mile; rob Peter to pay Paul.

Crosswords: Reap

Manx (field cabbage, rape).

A time to plant, a time to reap ("Turn Turn Turn"; performing artist: The Byrds)

If you do not want to reap the fruits of sin, stay out of the Devil's orchard. (references; author: unknown)

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

So Shall Ye Reap (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Elderwoman: Reap the Wisdom, Feel the Power, Embrace the Joy (reference)

• Prayer Is Good Medicine: How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer (reference)

• Reap (reference)

• Reap the Whirlwind (The Sword of Knowledge, No 3) (reference)

• Reap the Whirlwind: The Battle of the Rosebud June 1876 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Reap the Wild Wind (reference)

• So Shall You Reap (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Reap the Whirlwind (reference)

• Texas Songster, Vol. 2 : You Got To Reap What You Sow (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Care of private land is important for the future of those who will farm the land as well as those who will reap the benefits of a healthy land.Credit: Tim McCabe.

Cradling wheat near Sperryville, Virginia. A hand binder follows the mower. These men had never heard of a combine harvester. "Sure would like to see that." Their father used a reap hook.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Nay, the extent of ground is of so little value, without labour, that I have heard it affirmed, that in Spain itself a man may be permitted to plough, sow and reap, without being disturbed, upon land he has no other title to, but only his making use of it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Though we have spent our harvest of this king, We are to reap the harvest of his son.

For upon some words he spoke, they went to reap the corn in the field where I lay.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Children with autism and their families reap many benefits from early intervention. (references)

With careful attention to these ethical quandaries, and adequate safeguards when necessary, society can reap the full benefits of the Human Genome Project. (references)

Current low rates of regular activity in Americans may be partially due to the misperception of many that vigorous, continuous exercise is necessary to reap health benefits. (references)

Business

Nevertheless such predictions indicate that those in franchising can expect to reap even greater rewards than are currently being experienced. (references)

As the benefits of going hi-tech are realized, more and more companies will implement Internet/e-commerce applications to reap greater profit margins. (references)

This "one-for-one" equal reimbursement system makes it nearly impossible for doctors to reap profit as they once did by receiving reimbursement that was considerably higher than the actual paid price of the drug or device. (references)

Economic History

Cambodia

Other cities--Battambang, Siem Reap, Kompong Cham, Kompong Speu, Kompong Thom. (references)

Mexico

This approach allows firms to eliminate the middleman and reap the benefits of direct contact. (references)

Poland

U.S. companies that approach the market with a long-term view of creating market share for their products will reap rewards. (references)

Trade

Turkey

The EU confirmed Turkey's status as an EU candidate status in December 1999, and Turkey has begun to reap the benefits of its 1996 customs union agreement with the EU, particularly in terms of improved economic efficiency. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "reap": reap a harvest ♦ reap a profit ♦ reap hook ♦ reap the benefit of ♦ reap the fruits of ♦ reap where one has not sown ♦ sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. Additional references.

Beginning with "reap": reap-hook, Reap-oddar.

Containing "reap": we-reap-as-we-sow.

Albanian

vandak (bunch, bundle, faggot, truss), mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), korr (harvest), duaj (sheaves). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسب (acquire, acquiring, acquisition, attain, earn, earning, gain, gaining, get, get smth. off one's hands, harvest, obtain, obtaining, prize, profit, win, winning), ‏حصد (crop, cut, harvest, head, mow), ‏جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏جنى (earn, gather). (various references)

Bulgarian 

жъна (bag, cut, harvest, mow), пожънвам. (various references)

Chinese 

�"�割 . (various references)

Czech

sklízet (crop, gather, gather in, harvest), kosit (mow, scythe), žnout (mow). (various references)

Farsi 

جمع اوری کردن (Cull, Levy, Mass, Muster, Rake), دروکردن (Scythe), بدست اوردن (Acquire, Attain, Catch, Earn, Enter, Gain, Get, Have, Impetrate, Obtain, Procure, Win). (various references)

Finnish

korjata sato (harvest, reap the harvest). (various references)

French

recueillir, moissonner, gagner (recruit), faucher. (various references)

German

ernten (dig, gather, harvest, harvesting, harvests, lift, lift up, pick, reaping, to harvest). (various references)

Greek 

θερίζω (crop, harvest, mow, scythe). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקצור (cut, harvest), לאסוף (collect, gather, rake, remove, round up, take in, withdraw). (various references)

Hungarian

lekaszál (mow down, mowed, mown, to mow, to mow down, to mow off, to reap), arat (crop, harvest, to get in the harvest, to harvest, to reap). (various references)

Indonesian

menyabit, mengetam, mendapat (find, gain, get, need, realize, receive), memetik hasil. (various references)

Irish

mbaineann, baineann, bain. (various references)

Italian

raccogliere (collect, collect one's thoughts, crop, gather, harvest, harvests, make a collection of, pick, pick up, pull, raise, rally, recollect, save, scoop, scoop up, sweep up, take in, taking, to take). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刈 (clip, cut, prune, shear, trim). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かり (acting, assumed, borrowing, clip, cut, debt, fleeting, hunting, informal, interim, loan, lower official, potash, potassium, provisional, prune, shear, temporary, trim, unauthorized, wild goose). (various references)

Korean 

수확하십시�". (various references)

Manx

buinn (cut, cut down, harvest, lift, mow, mowing, reaping, shear, shearing). (various references)

Pig Latin

eapray

Portuguese

recolher (indent, retract, taking, to retract, to take), receber (accept, collect, derive, do, entertain, get, have, meet one's commitment, receive, salute, take in, to cash, welcome), segar (harvest home, mow, scythe), fazer a colheita, colher (American pump, bailer, Berry, collect, crop, dart bailer, drag out, garnet, gather, gather a harvest, gather information, harvest, pick, pick off, pick up, pluck, pull, reap a harvest, sand bucket, slush bucket, spoon, spoon bait, spoon lure, tear off), ceifar (harvest, mow). (various references)

Romanian

recolta (crop, cut, gather, harvest, mow), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), secera (crop, cut down, harvest, mow, mow down), culege (collect, compose, crop, cull, gather, glean, mow, pick, pick up, pluck, set up, take up), cosi (cut, destroy, mow, mow down), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop). (various references)

Russian 

жать (cut, harvest, mow, pinch, press, strangle). (various references)

Scottish

buain (as grass, cut down; win, mow, pluck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ubrati (collect, pick), pokositi (cut down, mow down, scythe), požnjeti (harvest), žeti (harvest). (various references)

Spanish

segar (crop, cut, harvest, mow, mow down), cosechar (crop, gather, harvest, harvests, reap a harvest). (various references)

Swedish

skörda (harvest, to harvest). (various references)

Turkish

para yapmak (earn money, make money, reap a profit), kazanmak (achieve, acquire, attain, be in pocket, bear the bell, carry away the bell, carry off, clean up, clear, come by, draw, earn, gain, garner, gather, get, get out of, land, net, obtain, pull off, purchase, realize, take, win), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), hasat etmek, biçmek (crop, cut, cut out, cut up, estimate, harvest, mow, scythe, scythe down, slice). (various references)

Turkmen 

ormak. (various references)

Ukranian 

жати (harvest, mow), пожинати. (various references)

Welsh

medi (September). (various references)

lift tondeo totonsi tonsum, messa, messione, messionis, messis, messorum, messuerint, messueris, messueritis, messuerunt, messuistis, messum, metatur, mete, metebant, metemus, metendum, metens, metent, metentes, metentis, metentium, metere, metes, metet, metetis, metis, metit, metite, metitus, meto, metunt, tondeo totonsi tonsum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "reap": reapable, reaped, reaper, reapers, reaphook, reaphooks, reaping, reappear, reappearance, reappearances, reappeared, reappearing, reappears, reapplication, reapplications, reapplied, reapplies, reapply, reapplying, reappoint, reappointed, reappointing, reappointment, reappointments, reappoints, reapportion, reapportioned, reapportioning, reapportionment, reapportionments, reapportions, reappraisal, reappraisals, reappraise, reappraised, reappraises, reappraising, reappropriate, reappropriated, reappropriates, reappropriating, reapprove, reapproved, reapproves, reapproving, reaps. (additional references)

Words ending with "reap": threap. (additional references)

Words containing "reap": nonreappointment, nonreappointments, preapprove, preapproved, preapproves, preapproving, threaped, threaper, threapers, threaping, threaps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Reap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: creap, dreap, eap, Eralp, Erap, erp, Fepa, geap, greap, Preap, Rapa, rapj, rapp, reab, reac, reaf, reah, realp, reape, reapy, reau, reav, reaw, reax, reay, rebab, Redab, redap, reep, refab, reib, reka, Rekab, relp, remp, Repa, repap, repar, repat, repax, Repb, repp, Resampa, resp, respo, retap, reuo, reupe, rewamp, rewp, Rexa, reza, rezap, rhap, ripa, roap, roip, ropa, rrap, Rrapo, ryea, veap, yeap, zeap. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aper, pare, pear, rape.

-1 letter: ape, are, ear, era, par, pea, per, rap, rep.

-2 letters: ae, ar, er, pa, pe, re.

+1 letter: apers, apery, apres, apter, arpen, asper, caper, crape, drape, gaper, grape, japer, opera, pacer, padre, pager, paler, paper, parae, pared, pareo, parer, pares, pareu, parge, parle, parse, parve, pater, paver, pawer, payer, pearl, pears, peart, perea, prase, prate, presa, raped, raper, rapes, raphe, reaps, recap, remap, repay, spare, spear, taper.

+2 letters: ampere, ampler, apercu, appear, arpens, arpent, aspers, aspire, bewrap, camper, capers, capper, carped, carpel, carper, carpet, craped, crapes, damper, dapper, depart, diaper, draped, draper, drapes, drapey, earlap, enrapt, entrap, enwrap, eparch, escarp, frappe, gapers, gasper, gawper, grapes, grapey, hamper, harped, harper, japers, japery, jasper, lapper, lapser, leaper, mapper, napery, napper, operas, pacers, packer, padder, padres, pagers, paired, palier, palmer, palter, pamper, pander, panier, panzer, papers, papery, parade, parcel, pardee, pardie, parent, pareos, parers, pareus, pareve, parged, parges, parget, paries, parked, parker, parled, parles, parley, parole, parred, parrel, parsec, parsed, parser, parses, parted, parure, passer, paster, paters, patter, patzer, pauper, pauser, pavers, pawers, pawner, payers, pearls, pearly, pedlar, pereia, petard, phrase, pirate, placer, planer, plater, player, pleura, praise, prance, prases, prated, prater, prates, praxes, prayed, prayer, preach, preact, preamp, prearm, prefab, prelaw, preman, prepay, pretax, prewar, protea, ramped, rapers, raphae, raphes, rapier, rapine, rapped, rappee, rappel, rappen, rapper, rasped, rasper, reaped, reaper, recaps, redcap, remaps, repack, repaid, repair, repand, repark, repass, repast, repave, repays, repeal, repeat, replan, replay, retape, revamp, rewrap, rhaphe, sapper, sarape, scrape, secpar, serape, seraph, shaper, sherpa, soaper, spacer, spader, spared, sparer, spares, sparge, sparse, spears, spirea, spread, tamper, tapers, tapper, tephra, teraph, threap, trapes, trepan, upbear, uprate, uprear, uptear, vamper, warped, warper, yapper, yauper, yawper, zapper.

+3 letters: adapter, adepter, adopter, amperes, aparejo, apercus, aperies, apparel, appears, applier, apposer, apprise, apprize, approve, aproned, apteral, apteria, apteryx, apyrase, arpents, aruspex, asperse, aspired, aspirer, aspires, barkeep, bedrape, bewraps, bewrapt, breakup, caliper, campers, campier, capered, caperer, cappers, caprice, caprine, capture, carpale, carpels, carpers, carpets, champer, chapter, cheaper, clamper, clapper, clasper, compare, cramped, crapped, crapper, crappie, dampers, departs, deprave, despair, diapers, diptera, drapers, drapery, eardrop, earflap, earlaps, earplug, empaler, emporia, entraps, enwraps, eparchs, eparchy, ephedra, ephoral, epicarp, epigram, escaper, escarps, esparto, exocarp, felspar, firepan, flapper, flareup, forepaw, frapped, frappes, gappier, garpike, gaspers, gawpers, grapery, graphed, grapier, grapnel, grapple, grasped, grasper, graupel, hampers, hanaper, happier, harelip, harpers, harpies, heparin, impaler, impearl, imperia, impresa, jaspers, jaspery, jeopard, knapper, lampers, lamprey, lappers, lapsers, leapers, lempira, leopard, manrope, mappers, meropia, nappers, nappier, opaquer, operand, operant, operate, overapt, overlap, overpay, packers, padders, paddler, padrone, painter, palaver, palfrey, pallier, palmers, palmier, palters, pampero, pampers, panders, pandore, paniers, pannier, panther, panzers, papered, paperer, pappier, parable, paraded, parader, parades, parapet, parcels, parched, parches, pardine, pardner, pareira, parents, parerga, pareses, paresis, paretic, pargets, parises, parkers, parleys, paroled, parolee, paroles, parquet, parrels, parried, parries, parsecs, parsers, parsley, partake, partied, partier, parties, partite, partlet, partner, partyer, parures, parvenu, parvise, passers, pastern, pasters, pastier, pasture, patcher, pattern, patters, patzers, paupers, pausers, paviser, pawkier, pawners, peacher, peakier, pearled, pearler, pearter, peartly, peatier, peccary, pedlars, pedlary, peerage, peloria, peracid, percale, pergola, perhaps, periapt, peridia, perilla, perinea, peroral, persalt, persona, pertain, perusal, pervade, pessary, petards, petrale, peytral, phorate, phrased, phrases, piaffer, piaster, piastre, picrate, pirated, pirates, placers, plaguer, plainer, plaiter, planers, planner, planter, plasher, plaster, platers, platier, platter, players, pleader, pleaser, pleater, plectra, plenary, pleurae, pleural, pleuras, poacher, portage, praetor, prairie, praised, praiser, praises, praline, pranced, prancer, prances, pranged, pranked, praters, prattle, prawned, prawner, prayers, preachy, preacts, preaged, preamps, preanal, prearms, preaver, prebake, precast, precava, predate, predawn, predial, prefabs, preface, prefade, pregame, preheat, prelacy, prelate, premade, premeal, prename, prepack, prepaid, prepare, prepays, preplan, prerace, presage, presale, presoak, pretape, prevail, prewarm, prewarn, prewash, prewrap, primage, primate, private, probate, profane, prolate, pronate, propane, prorate, protean, proteas, psalter, pteryla, puberal, pugaree, pyrexia, ralphed, rampage, rampike, rampole, ranpike, raphide, rapider, rapiers, rapines, rappees, rappels, rappers, rapture, raspers, raspier, readapt, readopt, reapers, reaping, reapply, reclasp, redcaps, relapse, repacks, repaint, repairs, repanel, repaper, reparks, repasts, repatch, repaved, repaves, repeals, repeats, replace, replans, replant, replate, replays, replead, replica, reposal, reptant, reshape, respace, respade, respeak, respray, restamp, retaped, retapes, revamps, rewraps, rewrapt, rhaphae, rhaphes, ropable, ropeway, sampler, sappers, sappier, saprobe, sarapes, scalper, scamper, scarped, scarper, scauper, scraped, scraper, scrapes, scrapie, seaport, secpars, serapes, seraphs, shapers, sharped, sharpen, sharper, sharpie, sherpas, slapper, snapper, soapers, soapier, spacers, spacier, spaders, spaller, spammer, spanker, spanner, sparely, sparers, sparest, sparged, sparger, sparges, sparked, sparker, sparkle, sparred, sparser, spatter, spawner, speaker, speared, spearer, spectra, spheral, spiraea, spireas, sprayed, sprayer, spreads, stamper, stapler, swamper, swapper, tampers, tapered, taperer, tappers, tapster, tempera, templar, tempura, tephras, therapy, threaps, traipse, tramped, tramper, trample, trapeze, trapped, trapper, trepang, trepans, typebar, undrape, upbears, updater, upgrade, upraise, uprated, uprates, upreach, uprears, upstare, uptears, vampers, vampire, vapored, vaporer, warpage, warpers, waspier, whapper, wiretap, wrapped, wrapper, yappers, yaupers, yawpers, zappers, zappier.

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