REARS

5 letters 5 Scrabble points

Definition of REARS

verb
  1. To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.

  2. (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.

    "The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years."

  3. To rise up on the hind legs

    "The horse was shocked, and thus reared."

Related words: prance
verb
  1. To move; stir.

  2. (of geese) To carve.

    "Rere that goose!"

  3. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)

    "He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead."

noun
  1. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.

  2. Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

  3. The buttocks, a creature's bottom

Related words: rear end
verb
  1. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

  2. To sodomize (perform anal sex)

Source: Wiktionary

Word Details

Letters R E A R S
Length 5 letters
Scrabble Score 5 points

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