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Rearing

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

📖 Definitions of "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.

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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