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rares

rares is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rare.

rares is the plural of rare.

Meaning of rare

Verb

rare (third-person singular simple present rares, present participle raring, simple past and past participle rared)

  1. (US, intransitive) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
    • Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 328
  2. (US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise.
    • Here I have to say that I was walking along dark-hearted, my nose out of joint about Audie's notice of her, for just as quickly as my feelings kindled, my old envy rared.2013, Janet Peery, What the Thunder Said: A Novella and Stories, →ISBN

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Questions about rares

What is rares the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rares is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rare.

Words near rares in the dictionary

  1. rarer
  2. rarer than hen's teeth
  3. rarer than hens' teeth
  4. rareripe
  5. rareripes
  6. rares
  7. raresome
  8. rarest
  9. rareties
  10. rarety
  11. Rareyfied

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