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- [reer]
- /rɪər/
- /rɪər/
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- [reer]
- /rɪər/
Definitions of reared word
- verb with object reared to take care of and support up to maturity: to rear a child. 1
- verb with object reared to breed and raise (livestock). 1
- verb with object reared to raise by building; erect. 1
- verb with object reared to raise to an upright position: to rear a ladder. 1
- verb with object reared to lift or hold up; elevate; raise. 1
- verb without object reared to rise on the hind legs, as a horse or other animal. 1
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Origin of reared
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English reren, Old English rǣran to raise; cognate with Gothic -raisjan, Old Norse reisa
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Parts of speech for Reared
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
reared popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
reared usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for reared
adj reared
- bred — Bred is the past tense and past participle of breed.
adjective reared
- erected — Simple past tense and past participle of erect.
verb reared
- goosed — any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- hefted — weight; heaviness: It was a rather flimsy chair, without much heft to it.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- jacked — Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss.
- loomed — a looming appearance, as of something seen indistinctly at a distance or through a fog: the loom of a moraine directly in their path.
noun reared
- heeled — provided with a heel or heels.
Antonyms for reared
noun reared
- cloaked — Wearing a cloak.
- faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- foregrounded — Simple past tense and past participle of foreground.
- led — simple past tense and past participle of lead1 .
adjective reared
- fronted — Simple past tense and past participle of front.