reap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle reaped or reapt)

  1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
  2. To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.
    to reap a benefit from exertions
  3. (computer science) 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.
  4. (obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)


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