rearing

Verb

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

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.1694, Thomas Southerne, Isabella: Or The Fatal Marriage
2. (transitive) To breed and raise.
   • The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.
3. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
   • The horse was shocked, and thus reared.

   Synonyms:

   prance

4. (intransitive, usually) To get angry.
5. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
   • By my side reared a solid stone wall, and beneath was simply the room we stood in, for the space below the stairway was not enclosed.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
6. (literary, transitive) 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)

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