Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun harvesting

1 sense of harvesting

Sense 1
harvest, harvesting, harvest home -- (the gathering of a ripened crop)
       => gather, gathering -- (the act of gathering something)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb harvest

2 senses of harvest

Sense 1
reap, harvest, glean -- (gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes")
       => gather, garner, collect, pull together -- (assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together")

Sense 2
harvest -- (remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; "The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals")
       => remove, take, take away, withdraw -- (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment")

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