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REAP

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gather, as of natural products

Example:

harvest the grapes

Synonyms:

glean; harvest; reap

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "reap" is one way to...):

collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reap"):

cut (reap or harvest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They reap rye in the field

Derivation:

reaper (farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields)

reaper (someone who helps to gather the harvest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get or derive

Example:

He drew great benefits from his membership in the association

Synonyms:

draw; reap

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "reap" is one way to...):

derive; gain (obtain)

Verb group:

draw (elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

Here it is, and we never can thank you enough for the patient sowing and reaping you have done, cried Jo, with the loving impetuosity which she never would outgrow.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Let me then advise you, dear sir, to console yourself as much as possible, to throw off your unworthy child from your affection for ever, and leave her to reap the fruits of her own heinous offense.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mary had shewn herself disobliging to him, and was now to reap the consequence, which consequence was his dropping her arm almost every moment to cut off the heads of some nettles in the hedge with his switch; and when Mary began to complain of it, and lament her being ill-used, according to custom, in being on the hedge side, while Anne was never incommoded on the other, he dropped the arms of both to hunt after a weasel which he had a momentary glance of, and they could hardly get him along at all.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Everyone will enjoy this change because it means each person, no matter what his or her sign, will start to reap benefits and lucky breaks in a new area of life.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“She has sown this. Let her moan for the harvest that she reaps today!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With tools made of these flints, they likewise cut their hay, and reap their oats, which there grow naturally in several fields; the Yahoos draw home the sheaves in carriages, and the servants tread them in certain covered huts to get out the grain, which is kept in stores.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

From the beginning he has never concealed his belief that Professor Challenger is an absolute fraud, that we are all embarked upon an absurd wild-goose chase and that we are likely to reap nothing but disappointment and danger in South America, and corresponding ridicule in England.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Many of the bowmen had drawn amulets and relics from their bosoms, while he who possessed some more than usually sanctified treasure passed it down the line of his comrades, that all might kiss and reap the virtue.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Additionally, you will reap another bonus—this full moon will also bring you to the finish of a highly creative project, possibly connected to the entertainment arts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)