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Rearing
To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
📖 Definitions of "Rearing"
- 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.
- 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."
- 1
To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- 2
To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- 1
Act of raising young.
"We studied blowfly rearings in various environmental conditions."
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