reaped
Cut and collected
Reaped is the past tense of reap, meaning to cut and gather a crop at harvest: They reaped the wheat before the storm.
Figuratively, to reap is to receive consequences or rewards from earlier actions: She reaped the benefits of years of hard work.
You reap what you sow warns that actions have fitting consequences.
Cereal plant's harvest unit
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- barleyGrain for malt
- cropCultivated agricultural plants
- sheavesBound clusters of stalks
sickle · scythe · threshing · combine · glean · winnowing · autumn · husbandry
Financial surplus after costs
- gainsIncreases in value
- rewardsBenefits given for merit
- bountyReward for capture
- windfallUnanticipated lucky gain
dividends · returns · spoils · fruits · prosperity · riches · wealth · success
Spiritual cause and effect
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- rewardPayment for service
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
fallout · backlash · ramifications · repercussions · fate · destiny · judgment · justice
grain
Cereal plant's harvest unit
sheaves · sickle · scythe · threshing · combine · glean · winnowing · autumn · husbandry · agriculture
profits
Financial surplus after costs
windfall · dividends · returns · spoils · fruits · prosperity · riches · wealth · success · yield
karma
Spiritual cause and effect
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- rewardPayment for service
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
punishment · fallout · backlash · ramifications · repercussions · fate · destiny · judgment · justice · penalty
- reaps the harvestGathers mature crops
- Grim ReaperSkeletal embodiment of mortality
- reap the benefits
- reap what one sowsFace consequences of actions
- reap the whirlwindSuffer consequences of misdeeds
- reaping what one sowsReceiving earned consequences