Word Finder - rears

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

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

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The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.

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To rise up on the hind legs

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The horse was shocked, and thus reared.

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(usually with "up") To get angry.

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To rise high above, tower above.

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To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.

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The monster slowly reared its head.

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To construct by building; to set up

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to rear defenses or houses

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To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.

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To lift and take up.

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To rouse; to strip up.

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To move; stir.

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(of geese) To carve.

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Rere that goose!

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

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

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

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

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The buttocks, a creature's bottom

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

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To sodomize (perform anal sex)

One of his last nets was hanging in the garden where he now rears chickens.

From the west, a long valley suddenly rears up at three-quarters distance.

The foundress of the nest lays eggs and at first feeds and rears the larvae, the earliest of which develop into workers.

It builds its nest in March, or early in April, in thick bushes or in ivy-clad trees, and usually rears at least two broods each season.

But if he kicks or rears again, he shall forfeit the succession to the crown, and even, according to circumstances, life itself."

He is also represented leaning on a staff while a huge serpent rears itself up behind him, or (on a coin from Gythium),,a serpent seems to come to him from a well.

In an ironic twist, the actual bearer of the guns rears their head from the jungle.

Potter's Poultry rears pullets for free range egg production across the country, supplying around a million birds a year.

The Artemis of the Odyssey " taking her pastime in the chase of boars and swift deer, while with her the wild wood-nymphs disport them, and high over them all she rears her brow, and is easily to be known where all are fair," is a perfectly rational mythic representation of a divine being.

Benetton owns vast tracts of farmland in southern Argentina, where it rears sheep to provide wool for its garments.

Every time one of these terrible incidents rears its ugly head, it seems that the music and performers of that music are the ones we blame, not the bullies at school, not the parents, nor the guns and depression.

The sometimes controversial designs and slogans of Juicy Couture drew international attention as tracksuits and underwear began to sport sayings on the rears, and phrases such as "Go Couture Yourself" became synonymous with the Juicy name.

August DVD releases will keep spirits from lagging as students prepare to go back to school, and the end of summer rears its wicked head.