rear
To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
Verb 4 meanings
To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
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.”
To get angry.
Adjective 2 meanings
Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
“the rear rank of a company”
(of meats) Rare.
Noun 3 meanings
The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
The buttocks or bottom.
Etymology
From Middle English reren (“to raise”), from Old English rǣran (“to raise, set upright, promote, exalt, begin, create, give rise to, excite, rouse, arouse, stir up”), from Proto-West Germanic *raiʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *raizijaną, *raisijaną (“to cause to rise, raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to lift oneself, rise”).
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REAR at a glance
REAR has 4 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (R 1 + E 1 + A 1 + R 1) and 4 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,381 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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