rearing
verb
- 1
To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- 2
(said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
“The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.”
- 3
To rise up on the hind legs
“The horse was shocked, and thus reared.”
- 4
(usually with "up") To get angry.
- 5
To rise high above, tower above.
- 6
To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
“The monster slowly reared its head.”
- 7
To construct by building; to set up
“to rear defenses or houses”
- 8
To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- 9
To lift and take up.
- 10
To rouse; to strip up.
Synonyms
verb
- 1
To move; stir.
- 2
(of geese) To carve.
“Rere that goose!”
- 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
To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- 2
To sodomize (perform anal sex)
noun
- 1
Act of raising young.
“We studied blowfly rearings in various environmental conditions.”
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