reap

CEFRC1

/ˈɹiːp/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To cut and collect a crop, or gain a result.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.

Examples

  • Some day you will have to reap the harvest of your own sowing.

  • We will reap rich rewards later on in life.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.

  2. To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine

  3. To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.

More examples

In context

  • Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.

  • to reap a benefit from exertions

  • Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

Farmers blank the wheat in late summer when it is fully grown.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”).