reap

[reap]

When you reap something, you enjoy the rewards of your efforts. When your great audition gets you cast in your dream role, you reap the benefits of all that rehearsing you did.

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To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

Verb
gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"

Verb
get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"


v. t.
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.

v. t.
To deprive of the beard; to shave.

v. i.
To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

v.
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.


Reap

Reap , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping.] [OE. repen, AS. r'c6pan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe.] 1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
2. 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.
Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
3. To clear or a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field. 4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] Shak. Reaping hook, an instrument having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.

Reap

Reap, v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Reap

Reap, n. [Cf. AS. r'c6p harvest. See Reap, v.] A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright.

To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

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Usage Examples

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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Other Usage Examples

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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