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Reraped vs Reaped - What's the difference?

reraped | reaped |

As verbs the difference between reraped and reaped

is that reraped is past tense of rerape while reaped is past tense of reap.

reraped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rerape)

  • rerape

    English

    Verb

    (rerap)
  • To rape again.
  • *1995 , E. W. Count, Cop Talk: True Detective Stories from the Nypd
  • *:Rape victims, they don't want to be reraped .
  • * 1986 , Jan Hollingsworth, Unspeakable acts
  • *:For the first time, they could try a child rape case without reraping the child.
  • * 2006 January 21, "You can't really see me" (username), " CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Usenet Ghoul of the Year", in alt.music.michael-jackson, Usenet :
  • Hey, you could always go rerape women who have already been raped, or gang raped.

    reaped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reap)

  • reap

    English

    Verb

  • To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
  • * Bible, Leviticus
  • When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
  • 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
  • * Milton
  • Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
  • * (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
  • For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. Gal.6.7
  • (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.
  • (obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * reaper * reap what one sows *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
  • Anagrams

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