reap

reap is a 4-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
4. transitive verb. To deprive of the beard; to shave.
5. intransitive verb. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
6. verb. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
7. verb. gather, as of natural products

   "harvest the grapes"

   Synonyms: glean, harvest

8. verb. get or derive

   "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

   Synonyms: draw

Synonyms

glean, harvest, draw

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in reap:

aper, pare, pear, rape

Common word forms

reaps, reaped, reaper, reaping, reapable

Words from these letters

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