Dictionary Definition
reap
Verb
2 get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his
membership in the association" [syn: draw]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- rēp, /riːp/, /ri:p/
Etymology
etyl ang reopan.Verb
- 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.
- Bible. Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
- For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. Gal.6.7
- Bible. Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
- To deprive of the beard; to shave.
- A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
Derived terms
Translations
to cut with a sickle
to receive as a reward
- Portuguese: colher
Extensive Definition
Reap may refer to:
- Reap, to Harvest grain crops
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Grim Reaper (disambiguation)
- Grim Reaper, see Death (personification)
- "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" and all the variants or rephrasings thereof, an English idiom, originally from the Epistle to the Galatians of the Bible
- Leg reaps, in Budo, use of leg(s) to reap one or both of his opponent's legs off the ground
- REAP, a new Department of Defense education benefit program
- Reaper (disambiguation)
- Re-Engineering Assessment Practices, one of six projects funded under the Scottish Funding Council's E-learning Transformation Programme
- Siem Reap Airways (International), an airline based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Small outer reap, an original Judo throwing technique developed by Jigoro Kano
Entertainment
- As You Sow, So Shall You Reap, a seven-song EP released in 2002 by Femme Fatale
- Reap the Wild Wind, a serialized story written by Thelma Strabel in 1940 for The Saturday Evening Post
- "Reap The Wild Wind (live)", a song from Visions in Blue, Ultravox's third single
- Reap the Whirlwind, the 1999 debut album by Cleveland, Ohio hip hop artists 10,000 Cadillacs
- Reap the Whirlwind (Cherryh and Lackey), one of a trilogy of shared world fantasy novels from The Sword of Knowledge series
- Reap Walking / The Loser from the Earth's Core, the 56th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
- "Reap What We Sow", song from Gifted Life by Downsyde
- Reaping Machines (2006), an album by Jaqueline, a hard rock band from Norway
- 'So Shall Ye Reap: The Story of César Chávez & the California Farm Workers Movement', book by Joan London (American writer) and Henry Anderson
- The Reaping, 2007 horror film
- The Reaping (Doctor Who audio), a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who
- The Sower Reaps, a 1914 American silent short drama
Places
- Siem
Reap Province, a province located in northwestern Cambodia, on
the shores of the Tonle Sap lake
- Siem Reap, the capital of Siem Reap Province, Cambodia.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abbreviate, abridge, abstract, acquire, bag, be seized of, bob, boil down, bring in, capsulize, capture, catch, clip, come by, come in for, come
into, compress,
condense, contract, corral, crop, crop herbs, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off
short, cut short, derive,
dig, dock, drag down, draw, earn, elide, enter into possession,
epitomize, foreshorten, gain, garner, gather, gather in, get, glean, grabble, harvest, hay, make, mow, net, nip, nut, obtain, pick, pluck, poll, pollard, procure, profit, prune, pull down, reap and carry,
recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, sack, score, secure, shave, shear, shorten, snub, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take, take in, take up, telescope, trim, truncate, win