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")