rear

1. 1

   To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.transitive

   • He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue.
2. 2

   To breed and raise.transitive

   • The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.
3. 3

   To rise up on the hind legs.intransitive

   • The horse was shocked, and thus reared.
4. 4

   To get angry.intransitiveusually

   • The skunk reared up on its hind legs when it faced a fox.
5. 5

   To rise high above, tower above.intransitive

   • 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.
6. 6

   To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.literarytransitive

   • Poverty reared its ugly head. (appeared, started, began to have an effect)
   • The monster slowly reared its head.
7. 7

   To construct by building; to set upraretransitive

   • to rear defenses or houses
   • to rear one government on the ruins of another.
8. 8

   To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.raretransitive

   • It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts.
9. 9

   To lift and take up.obsoletetransitive

   • And hauing her from Trompart lightly reard, / Vpon his Courser set the louely lode,
10. 10

    To rouse; to strip up.obsoletetransitive

    • And seeks the tusky boar to rear.

1. 1

   Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.not-comparable

   • the rear rank of a company
   • sit in the rear seats of a car

ant. front

1. 1

   early; soonUKdialectalnot-comparable

   • Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear!

1. 1

   The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.

   • Nipt with the lagging rear of winters froſt.
2. 2

   Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

   • When the fierce Foe hung on our brok'n Rear
3. 3

   The buttocks or bottom.

1. 1

   To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

2. 2

   To sodomize (perform anal sex)UKtransitivevulgar

1. 1

   To move; stir.transitive

2. 2

   To carve.transitive

   • Rear that goose!
3. 3

   To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)obsoleteregional

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

1. 1

   (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.dialectal

2. 2

   (of meats) Rare.US

   • Fred ordered a rear steak along with a glass of beer as he took a seat at an empty table