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Reaped vs Ripped - What's the difference?

reaped | ripped |

As verbs the difference between reaped and ripped

is that reaped is past tense of reap while ripped is past tense of rip.

As an adjective ripped is

torn, either partly or into separate pieces.

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.
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    ripped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rip)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.
  • Pulled away from forcefully.
  • In data storage, transferred to a hard disk from another portable media form.
  • Copied or stolen usually from an identified source.
  • (bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles.
  • * 1988', Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", '''' ' 47 (6): 28-34.
  • With the average male competitor weighing around 220, the total poundage of raw, ripped mass in the preliminary lineup is over 3,700 pounds.
  • * 2010', Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", ''Reps!'' ' 17 :106
  • That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
  • (slang) Drunk, inebriated.
  • Synonyms

    * (torn) torn * (having low bodyfat) chiseled, cut, shredded * (drunk) See

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