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reap

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"Harvest"

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹiːp/Part of speech verbSorted aeprStarts with REnds with P1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. gather, as of natural products

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • And when ye reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reape the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy haruest.
  • to reap a benefit from exertions
  • Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.

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