CROPS Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

crops 1 of 2

noun

plural of crop

as in harvests

the quantity of an animal or vegetable product gathered at the end of a season the wheat crop is going to be exceptionally large this year

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Relevance

as in groups

a usually small number of persons considered as a unit the school's latest crop of graduates is its most academically gifted so far

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crops

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verb

present tense third-person singular of crop

as in grows

to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care a family that's been cropping potatoes on that piece of land for generations

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as in shaves

to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument grass cropped short by repeated grazing cropped the painting to fit the frame

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Recent Examples of crops

Noun

Chastain recommends keeping all bird attractions (like birdbaths, feeders, and birdhouses) in a separate section of the garden away from your food crops, creating a bird haven to keep them busy. — The Spruce, 5 July 2026 Drought covered virtually the entire Plains, destroying crops with deficient rainfall, high temperatures, high winds, insect infestations and dust storms. — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 July 2026 Livestock and many Old World crops had already been introduced to North America by European explorers and settlers during the centuries before the nation's founding. — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026 This season, some farmers may opt to plant crops that require less nitrogen fertilizer than corn, such as soy beans, in response to rising costs. — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 3 July 2026 Rotate crops every two or three years and water the plants at soil level rather than overhead to avoid getting the leaves wet. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 July 2026 Moving forward, Mora says what happens in court will determine what happens to future crops. — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026 For fruit crops, Pritts explains that offspring are often lower in quality than either parent. — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 27 June 2026 But Oregon policymakers have such loose definitions of what’s beneficial and what’s waste that, during the drought, our reporting found, only 1 of every 4 gallons COID took from the river was absorbed by crops. — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026

Verb

There are two levels of HyperSmooth available, standard and Boost, the latter of which crops into the frame a little more tightly to handle especially bumpy scenes. — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 11 June 2026 When a user uploads a photo, the algorithm locates the bee, crops the image and compares it to our database. — Kansas City Star, 14 Nov. 2025

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Noun

Hunters harvested 2,873 black bears in 2026, with Tioga County reporting the most harvests.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 4 July 2026
When temperatures soar and rain is absent from the forecast, your fruit trees may suffer from excessive water loss, sunburn on the leaves, and stunted growth, all of which can disrupt the likelihood of future harvests.

— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 2 July 2026

Definition of harvests

Noun

This systematic approach, including proactive diaspora talent identification and a uniform coaching philosophy across all age groups, has yielded consistent results, including a U20 World Cup win.

— Chris Evans, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
With both nights devolving into chaos, Brooks and the other guys decide to call it quits on this gender experiment and plan to infiltrate the girls’ night and merge groups.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 9 July 2026

Definition of groups

Verb

Launch-site capacity and the pace at which regulators can license new launches are constrained the same way; each of these resources grows scarcer as the industry grows more crowded and the largest players lock up their share.

— Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
As the sun grows lighter, its gravitational grip weakens, pushing the surviving planets outward into a wider orbit that could double their distance from the star, according to NASA.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of grows

Verb

Zillow says that a pale pink bathroom could lose you up to $6,013, while a pale pink kitchen shaves an extra $4,201 off potential buyers' offers.

— Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2026
The decision to move elections to November shaves several months off the existing terms of the mayor, vice mayor and commissioners.

— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026

Definition of shaves

Verb

Contributing to victories — and a historic no-hitter in Arlington — cultivates confidence.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 July 2026
What matters is transmitting some portion of your financial legacy in a manner that fosters and cultivates your most important values and hopes for the future.

— Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of cultivates

Verb

Spink’s optimism about the growth opportunities in Saudi Arabia comes even as the kingdom trims capital expenditure, cuts some projects, and limits spending on foreign consultants.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
Coppola's preferred version of the film, Final Cut, removes or trims a handful of sequences, including the exchange between Willard (Martin Sheen) and the Playboy Playmates, and Kurtz (Marlon Brando) reading from TIME magazine.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026

Definition of trims

Noun

Reports have claimed that the first batches of these bullets have been delivered to Russian troops.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026
The core loop is to analyze inputs, document, plan, iterate in small batches with dev testing, update documentation and control for technical debt.

— Oleg Lola, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026