English Dictionary

rear

/ɹɪɹ/

verb

(transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. / (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. / (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs

She rear her children with love and care.

意味（1）

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

He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue.

意味（2）

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

The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs

The horse was shocked, and thus reared.

意味（4）

(intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.

意味（6）

(transitive, literary) 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)

意味（7）

(transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up

to rear defenses or houses

意味（8）

(transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.

It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts.

意味（9）

(transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.

And hauing her from Trompart lightly reard, / Vpon his Courser set the louely lode,

意味（10）

(transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.

And seeks the tusky boar to rear.