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rearing

[ US /ˈɹɪɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈi‍əɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
  2. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
    they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
ADJECTIVE
  1. rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile
    a lion rampant

How To Use rearing 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
  • There's to be no biting, kicking, rearing or foolery, understand?
  • An iceberg smashes its way to the surface, all sharp angles and ragged edges, rearing over the barely visible remains of a crushed and sinking ship.
  • Soviet women carry the main burden of shopping, homemaking and child rearing.
  • Control of such sites is limited to biocontrol agents and would benefit from the establishment of local insectariums for rearing and releasing biocontrol insects.
  • But the foal's mother still refused to accept him and ever since Mrs White has been hand-rearing him.
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