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Reared

/ɹɪəd/

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

📖 Definitions of "Reared"

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.

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

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
parentverb	To act as parent, to raise or rear.
erectverb	(transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
seatverb	(transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
arseverb	(Commonwealth, slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.
keisterverb	(slang) To conceal something in one's rectum.
buttverb	To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
bumverb	(intransitive, colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
nurtureverb	To nourish or nurse.
bunsnoun	(Canada, US, euphemistic, childish) The buttocks.
fundamentnoun	Foundation.
raiseverb	(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
put upverb	(transitive) To place in a high location.
pratnoun	(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A fool, contemptible person.
tooshienoun	Alternative spelling of tushie. [(colloquial, often childish) Buttocks, bottom.]
bring upverb	To mention.
liftverb	(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
set upverb	(transitive) To make ready for use.
rise upverb	To mount a rebellion or insurgency; to rebel; to revolt.
sternverb	(ambitransitive, nautical) To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
riseverb	(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.