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rears back

rears back is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 rears back

What is rears back the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rears back is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rear back.

Words near rears back in the dictionary

  1. rearrive
  2. rearrived
  3. rearrives
  4. rearriving
  5. rears
  6. rears back
  7. rears one's head
  8. rears one's ugly head
  9. rears up
  10. Rearsby
  11. rearseat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rears 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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