Definitions
Rearing - as a noun
The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
Example: "They debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
Rearing - as an adjective satellite
Rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile
Example: "A lion rampant"
Rearing - as a 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.
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."
To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
To sodomize (perform anal sex)
Example Sentences
Word Game Points
REARING has a SCRABBLE points total of 8.
REARING has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 10.
REARING has a WORDFEUD points total of 9.
