REAP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reap mean? 

• REAP (verb)
  The verb REAP has 2 senses:

1. gather, as of natural products

2. get or derive

  Familiarity information: REAP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REAP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reap    ... he / she / it reaps   
Past simple: reaped   
Past participle: reaped   
-ing form: reaping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gather, as of natural products

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

glean; harvest; reap

Context example:

harvest the grapes

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

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

draw; reap

Context example:

He drew great benefits from his membership in the association

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

 Context examples 

Ah! While we love, while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing—what can disturb our peace?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

What I reaped, I had sown.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He has the sugar of his tea spread out on the window-sill, and is reaping quite a harvest of flies.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But this did not at all suit the views of the landlord, who saw in this lucky incident a chance of reaping a fresh harvest from his spendthrift company.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Marianne, though without knowing it herself, reaped all its advantage; for neither Mrs. Jennings, nor Sir John, nor even Mrs. Palmer herself, ever spoke of him before her.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This is the first time in 12 years you’ve had this generous planet—Jupiter—in this part of your chart, and you will reap many enviable benefits from Jupiter’s position.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are scant crops and few beeves in the borderland, where a man must reap his grain with sickle in one fist and brown bill in the other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They milk their cows, reap their oats, and do all the work which requires hands, in the same manner.

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

Of personal adventures he said little, but laid stress upon the rich harvest reaped by Science in the observations of the wonderful beast, bird, insect, and plant life of the plateau.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)