Synonyms for reap
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1. reap

   Synonyms:
   gather, obtain, receive, get, acquire, realize, derive, gain

   Antonyms:
   scatter, squander, dissipate, waste, lose

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1. reap, harvest, gleanverb

   gather, as of natural products

   "harvest the grapes"

   Synonyms:
   harvest, glean, draw

2. reap, drawverb

   get or derive

   "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

   Synonyms:
   tie, take in, get, suck up, pull in, harvest, attract, thread, quarter, run, depict, guide, describe, drag, draw in, suck, delineate, make, soak up, cast, pull, get out, take out, disembowel, sop up, puff, pass, imbibe, glean, string, draw and quarter, pull out, draw, draw off, line, force, trace, absorb, withdraw, pull back, take up, eviscerate

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1. reapverb

   Synonyms:
   cut with a sickle

2. reapverb

   Synonyms:
   gather, gain, get, obtain

3. reapverb

   Synonyms:
   gather the harvest

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "reap":

   harvest, mowing, collect, derive

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1. Marian Tupy:

   Some of the anti-capitalist impulse goes back to that hunter-gatherer mentality and not comprehending the complexity of the market economy, the complexity outpaced our ability to understand it. But even those who don’t understand markets should open their eyes and acknowledge its benefits : Worldwide, wherever economic freedom is allowed, millions of people have lifted themselves out of stoop labor and miserable poverty. Of course, not everyone can reap the benefits of markets. The sick, the mentally ill and other truly helpless people need a hand. But why assume government must provide that help ? Government does n’t do anything very well. Why not let private charity handle it ? I once assumed there was too much poverty for private charity to make much of a difference. But now I realize there is plenty of money, and private charity would do much more if government did n’t discourage it. When the welfare state took over poverty relief, it crowded out.

2. Inna Vladimirskaya:

   The walrus looks much younger than its actual age because it spends so much time in cold water. Humans can reap the same benefits if they are prepared to put the hard work in.

3. Peter Openshaw:

   Immunology, like other cutting-edge areas of biomedical science, is a global discipline and one in which the UK excels, we currently rank first amongst the G7 nations for our research in immunity and infectious disease and are now starting to reap the benefits of our efforts, with new treatments for previously incurable diseases emerging after decades of investment and collaboration in immunological research.

4. Charles Reade:

   Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

5. Galations 69 Bible:

   And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.