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reared back

reared back is the simple past and past participle of rear back.

Meaning of rear back

Verb

rear back (third-person singular simple present rears back, present participle rearing back, simple past and past participle reared back)

  1. (usually a horse) To stand on two rear legs, as an aggressive or fearful gesture.
  2. (broadly) To stand, pull back or otherwise reposition oneself, often as a sudden response to a change or in preparation for an imminent reaction.

Questions about reared back

What is reared back the simple past and past participle of?
Reared back is the simple past and past participle of rear back.

Words near reared back in the dictionary

  1. Reardens
  2. Reardon
  3. Reardons
  4. reards
  5. reared
  6. reared back
  7. reared one's head
  8. reared one's ugly head
  9. reared up
  10. rearend
  11. rearended

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reared back (page history and authors); rear back (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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