Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1transitive verb
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
- 4transitive verb
To deprive of the beard; to shave.
- 5intransitive verb
To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
- 6verb
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
- 7verb
gather, as of natural products
"harvest the grapes"
- 8verb
get or derive
"He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"
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