REAP Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

reap

verb

ˈrēp

Definition of reap

as in to harvest

to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use my great-grandfather had to reap the wheat on his family farm with a hand scythe

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as in to earn

to receive as return for effort if you continue to work hard at musicianship, you will reap the rewards of being a concert pianist

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Recent Examples of reap This is not two separate failures, as low-income New Yorkers are often the last to reap the benefits of new policy and innovations. — Al Sharpton, New York Daily News, 14 Sep. 2026 Now the technique has become mainstream as attackers reap its simplicity and effectiveness in infecting users of PCs and Macs alike. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026 That new fund would include the NFL as a general partner (GP), allowing owners to reap both equity upside and share in carry on the investments, the sources said, which would be a new revenue stream for the league. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2026 All reap the benefits of following users’ behavior or purchasing patterns, storing and sorting through their public records, their IDs, their CVs, their IP. — David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for reap

Recent Examples of Synonyms for reap

Verb

That garden spawned an annual salsa competition, in which club employees harvest their own ingredients from the planters, make salsa at home, and bring it back to be judged.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
That means a material optimized for sunlight is not necessarily the best choice for harvesting light from LEDs or other indoor sources.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of harvest

Verb

Henderson earned his second interception of the night on the final play.

— Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
Buzz has completed a 99,767-kilometer (roughly 62,000 miles) journey through 92 countries and six continents, earning a Guinness World Record after spending 445 days on the road.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of earn

Verb

My mother picks me up off the floor, pulling me across the hall, into my bedroom, into bed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Cellphone camera footage broadcast by CBS Los Angeles shows the snake on a beach at night and someone trying to use what appears to be the base of a palm frond to pick it up and toss it back into the water.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of pick

Verb

Insights gained from the pilot project will form the basis for a potential future application of these materials in series-production battery cells.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
After a first dose, people gain protective antibodies quickly and immunity levels peak within about two weeks.

— Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of gain

Verb

McGovern lost, Obama won—but Obama won the presidency without transforming the Democratic foreign-policy class.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
The Moroccan Constitution requires the king to appoint the head of government from the party that wins the most seats in legislative elections.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of win

Verb

Regarding the types of self-service devices currently in use, the research showed that self-checkout terminals remain the most widely adopted at 89 percent, while scan-and-go via smartphone apps garnered 77 percent.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
Fairlane has garnered a string of unflattering headlines in recent years, including for unpaid taxes and utility bills, unplowed snow in the parking lot and a 2024 Christmas tree inside the mall that wasn't take down until this year.

— JC Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of garner

Verb

Menopausal women spent years unable to get relief from the potentially deadly but often preventable effects of recurrent urinary tract infections, due to the FDA’s black box warning for estrogen products.

— Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 24 Sep. 2026
Even if Xi’s trip proves to be more form than function, Lyle Goldstein, the director of the Asia Program at Defense Priorities, argued that getting the pair in the same room is a step in the right direction.

— Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of get

Verb

Experts say these numbers are likely an underestimate, particularly in rural areas that have struggled to obtain resources and vaccines.

— Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026
Frimpong also ordered the government to thoroughly document the probable cause that leads to an arrest before a warrant could be obtained.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026