rear
/ˈɹɪɚ/ verb B2- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- To breed and raise. · The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.
- To rise up on the hind legs. · The horse was shocked, and thus reared.
- To get angry. · The skunk reared up on its hind legs when it faced a fox.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate. · Poverty reared its ugly head. (appeared, started, began to have an effect)· The monster slowly reared its head.
He/she/it rears · Past reared · Past participle reared · -ing form rearing
Verb forms
- Base form
- rear
- He/she/it
- rears
- Past
- reared
- Past participle
- reared
- -ing form
- rearing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Peter leads the rear;
“It is a very good height indeed!” said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).
The poet sings of the “crowded hour of glorious life.” The broker’s hour is not only crowded, but the minutes and seconds are hanging to all the straps and packing both front and rear platforms.
Thus spoke the brave who was born and reared in the wigwams of the tribe of the Manhattans.
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