Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.

    ernten, schneiden, mähen

    жатьžatʹ, сжатьsžatʹ, пожина́тьpožinátʹ

    жа́тиžáty, пожина́тиpožynáty

  2. (transitive)To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.

    gather, as of natural products

  3. (transitive)To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.

    to reap a benefit from exertions

    ernten, einheimsen, einsammeln

    пожина́тьpožinátʹ, пожа́тьpožátʹ

  4. (transitive)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.

  5. (euphemistic, slang)To rape.

  6. (obsolete, transitive)To deprive of the beard; to shave.

Examples

52 sentences
  1. As you sow, so will you reap.

    Що посієш, те й пожнеш.

    ruЧто посеешь - то пожнёшь.

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  2. You reap what you sow.

    Що посієш, те й пожнеш.

    ruЧто посеешь - то пожнёшь.

    deMan erntet, was man gesät hat.

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  3. As you sow, so you shall reap.

    deWie man sich bettet, so liegt man.

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  4. We reap what we sow.

    ruМы пожинаем то, что сеем.

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  5. You must reap what you have sown.

    Сам кашу заварив, то сам і розхльобуй.

    ruЧто посеешь, то и пожнёшь.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to cut with a sickle or other implement:
Русский
By meaning 1
to cut with a sickle or other implement:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to cut with a sickle or other implement:
to receive as a reward:

Origin

From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (

From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”).

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Forms

reaps, reaping, reaped, reaped
Base formreap · to reap
3rd person singularreaps
Present participlereaping
Past simplereaped
Past participlereaped

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyreap
he, she, itreaps

Past simpleLesson

all personsreaped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave reaped
he, she, ithas reaped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill reap

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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