WordWeb Online

1. The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
   - raising, nurture
    
2. Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
   "they debated whether nature or rearing was more important";
   - breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, upbringing

1. Stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
   "The horse reared in terror";
   - rise up
    
2. Look after a child until it is an adult
   "rear a family";
   - raise, bring up, nurture, parent
    
3. Become or appear high or tall
   "The building reared before them";
   - rise, lift
    
4. Cause to rise up
   - erect
    
5. (construction) Construct, build
   - raise, erect, set up, put up

Derived forms: rearings

Type of: acculturation, appear, bring up, build, construct, elevate, enculturation, get up, lift, look, make, raise, seem, socialisation [Brit], socialization, straighten, upbringing

Encyclopedia: Rearing