rearing
verb
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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.
verb
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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.
verb
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To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
To sodomize (perform anal sex)
noun
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Act of raising young.
Example: We studied blowfly rearings in various environmental conditions.