harvest
/ˈhɑɹ.vəst/ verb C1- To bring in a harvest; reap; glean. · We harvested the apples in September already.
- To take a living organism as part of a managed process to gather food or resources, often with the intention of maintaining a healthy population. · An efficient rifle or shotgun can harvest a deer for venison.
- To take (an organ) from an organ donor.
- To be occupied bringing in a harvest. · We're going to harvest day and night, because the weather is about to turn sour.
- To win, achieve a gain. · The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21.
He/she/it harvests · Past harvested · Past participle harvested · -ing form harvesting
Verb forms
- Base form
- harvest
- He/she/it
- harvests
- Past
- harvested
- Past participle
- harvested
- -ing form
- harvesting
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A cool wind was blowing down over the long harvest fields from the rims of firry western hills and whistling through the poplars.
Matthew, hastily summoned from the harvest field, was straightway dispatched for the doctor, who in due time came, to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed.
It was delightful to rattle along over the moist roads in the early red sunlight that was creeping across the shorn harvest fields.
It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.
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