reap
/ˈɹiːp/ verb C1- To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.
- To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
- To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. · to reap a benefit from exertions
- To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table. · Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
- To rape.
He/she/it reaps · Past reaped · Past participle reaped · -ing form reaping
Verb forms
- Base form
- reap
- He/she/it
- reaps
- Past
- reaped
- Past participle
- reaped
- -ing form
- reaping
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Noirtier tenderly loves his granddaughter, Mademoiselle de Villefort; it is she who has nursed and tended him for six years, and has, by her devoted attention, fully secured the affection, I had almost said the gratitude, of her grandfather, and it is but just that she should reap the fruit of her devotion.”
He said, “I will come myself tomorrow with my laborers, and with as many reapers as I can hire, and will get in the harvest.” The Lark on hearing these words said to her brood, “It is time now to be off, my little ones, for the man is in earnest this time; he no longer trusts his friends, but will reap the field himself.”
It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.
Villefort, who did not choose to reveal the whole secret, lest another should reap all the benefit of the disclosure, had yet communicated enough to cause him the greatest uneasiness.
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