rearing

verb

  1. 1

    To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.

  2. 2

    (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.

    The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.
  3. 3

    To rise up on the hind legs

    The horse was shocked, and thus reared.
  4. 4

    (usually with "up") To get angry.

  5. 5

    To rise high above, tower above.

  6. 6

    To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.

    The monster slowly reared its head.
  7. 7

    To construct by building; to set up

    to rear defenses or houses
  8. 8

    To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.

  9. 9

    To lift and take up.

  10. 10

    To rouse; to strip up.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To move; stir.

  2. 2

    (of geese) To carve.

    Rere that goose!
  3. 3

    (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)

    He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead.

verb

  1. 1

    To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

  2. 2

    To sodomize (perform anal sex)

noun

  1. 1

    Act of raising young.

    We studied blowfly rearings in various environmental conditions.

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