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What does rear mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rear? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more common in American English.)
  2. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American English.)
  3. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs
  4. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
  5. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
  6. (literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
  7. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
  8. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
  9. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
  10. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To move; stir.
  2. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
  3. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
Adjective
  1. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
  2. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
Adjective
  1. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
Adverb
  1. (Britain, dialect) early; soon
Noun
  1. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
  2. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
  3. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom
Verb
  1. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
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