harvested

6 definitions • 12 examples

past simple and past participle of

to pick and collect crops, or to collect plants, animals, or fish as food:

In the US, winter wheat is harvested in the early summer.

By the end of the year, growers in the state will have harvested 1.8 million barrels of fruit.

About 30 million pounds of red snapper are harvested from US waters every year.

Farmers sort the vegetables when they harvest.

to take or collect a useful substance, for example water or a chemical element, from somewhere so that it can be used:

Hydrogen and oxygen could be harvested from the frozen water reserves.

We use harvested rainwater for most of our cooking.

to take cells or other body parts from someone for medical use:

The donor organ is harvested at the accident scene and rushed to a hospital.

Stem cells harvested from cord blood have been used to successfully treat dozens of serious illnesses.

to collect large quantities of information, especially automatically:

The ministry will not harvest data about salaries, sexual orientation, or country of origin for foreigners.

Unauthorized use of personal information harvested from social networks is likely to anger potential customers.

to get an advantage or something valuable from a situation:

He could harvest considerable political capital out of this incident.

The only winners here seem to be the large, for-profit corporations who harvest profits from schools.