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UK
/ɹˈiə/
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[ US /ˈɹɪɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪɹ/ ]
VERB
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rise up
The building rose before them -
look after a child until it is an adult
raise a family
bring up children -
construct, build, or erect
Raise a barn -
stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
The horse reared in terror - cause to rise up
NOUN
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the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
it was hidden in the rear of the store
he stood at the back of the stage -
the back of a military formation or procession
infantrymen were in the rear -
the side that goes last or is not normally seen
he wrote the date on the back of the photograph -
the side of an object that is opposite its front
his room was toward the rear of the hotel -
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
he deserves a good kick in the butt
are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
ADJECTIVE
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located in or toward the back or rear
the rear door of the plane
on the rearward side
the chair's rear legs
How To Use rear In A Sentence
- I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
- Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower. Archive 2008-06-01
- A fellow treats himself and his true love to dinner, a bottle and a night at the bug house at the end of another week of hard work and dutiful child-rearing, comes home happy and at peace, and what does he find?
- This paper summarized Ectropis obliqua Prout s biological control researches from the point of mass rearing, pathogenic natural enemy, predator, parasitoid and pheromone.
- In Florida, cruel men shoot the mother bird. on their nests while they are rearing their young. because their plumage is prettiest at that time. Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography
- I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish. From a College Window
- With a full tank of fuel, the weight bias shifts rearwards slightly, which helps traction, as does the standard limited slip differential.
- The drop-in module, which adds to the stiffness and torsional rigidity of the whole vehicle, ties the car together from the seats rearward and from b-pillar to b-pillar.
- Then prop yourself up using your toes and forearms maintaining a flat position. The Sun
- Baker's style is to prearrange deals by patiently and quietly lining up the parties before going public. The Rescue Squad
