English dictionary

reared Meaning & Definition

/ɹɪɹd/

What Does Reared Mean?

As a verb, reared means simple past and past participle of rear.

To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
(said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.
To rise up on the hind legs
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.
The monster slowly reared its head.
To construct by building; to set up
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.
Rere that goose!
(regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead.

The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.

The horse was shocked, and thus reared.

The monster slowly reared its head.

to rear defenses or houses

Rere that goose!

He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead.

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