Meaning of rear in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• 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 rise high above, tower above.

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

  Example: The monster slowly reared its head.

• To construct by building; to set up

  Example: to rear defenses or houses

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

• To lift and take up.

• To rouse; to strip up.

verb

• 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.

adjective

• (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.

• (of meats) Rare.

noun

• 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

verb

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

• To sodomize (perform anal sex)

adjective

• Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost

  Example: sit in the rear seats of a car

adverb

• Early; soon