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

(said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.

Example: The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.

To rise up on the hind legs

Example: The horse was shocked, and thus reared.

(usually with "up") To get angry.

To move; stir.

(of geese) To carve.

Example: Rere that goose!

(regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)

Example: He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead.

(of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.

(of meats) Rare.

The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.

Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

The buttocks, a creature's bottom

To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

To sodomize (perform anal sex)

Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost

Example: sit in the rear seats of a car

Early; soon