REARED

/ɹɪəd/
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Definition

/ɹɪəd/
verb
  1. To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
  2. (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
    “The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.”
  3. To rise up on the hind legs
    “The horse was shocked, and thus reared.”
verb
  1. To move; stir.
  2. (of geese) To carve.
    “Rere that goose!”
  3. (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.”
verb
  1. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
  2. To sodomize (perform anal sex)

Source: Wiktionary

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