Words that rhyme with reaping

n 1: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping] 2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]

n 1: the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey [syn: beekeeping, apiculture]

n 1: the activity of recording business transactions [syn: bookkeeping, clerking]

n 1: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: crawl, crawling, creep, creeping]

n 1: conformity or harmony; "his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion" 2: the responsibility of a guardian or keeper; "he left his car in my keeping" [syn: guardianship, keeping, safekeeping] 3: the act of retaining something [syn: retention, keeping, holding]

n 1: a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce]

n 1: the responsibility of a guardian or keeper; "he left his car in my keeping" [syn: guardianship, keeping, safekeeping]

adj 1: leaking out slowly [syn: oozing, oozy, seeping]

adj 1: lying with head on paws as if sleeping [syn: dormant(ip), sleeping] n 1: the state of being asleep [ant: waking] 2: quiet and inactive restfulness [syn: quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleeping] 3: the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate

adj 1: taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide- sweeping view of the river" 2: ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction" [syn: sweeping, wholesale] n 1: the act of cleaning with a broom

adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping] 2: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping] n 1: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: crying, weeping, tears]