reaping
Meaning of reaping
verb
- To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
- To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
- To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
to reap a benefit from exertions
- 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.
- To deprive of the beard; to shave.
- The act by which something is reaped.
sowings and reapings
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Hyphenation of reaping
reap-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- reaping is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of reaping
Words that rhyme with reaping
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