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REARING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
Example:
they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
Synonyms:
breeding; bringing up; fosterage; fostering; nurture; raising; rearing; upbringing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rearing" is a kind of...):
acculturation; enculturation; socialisation; socialization (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)
Derivation:
rear (look after a child until it is an adult)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
Synonyms:
nurture; raising; rearing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("rearing" is a kind of...):
upbringing (properties acquired during a person's formative years)
Derivation:
rear (look after a child until it is an adult)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile
Example:
a lion rampant
Synonyms:
rampant; rearing
Classified under:
Similar:
erect; upright; vertical (upright in position or posture)
Domain category:
heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb rear
Context examples:
He backed away from her and began writhing and twisting playfully, curvetting and prancing, half rearing and striking his fore paws to the earth, struggling with all his body, from the wheedling eyes and flattening ears to the wagging tail, to express the thought that was in him and that was denied him utterance.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
All round were high and turreted walls, with at the corner a bare square-faced keep, gaunt and windowless, rearing up from a lofty mound, which made it almost inaccessible to an assailant.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He paid two dollars and a half a month rent for the small room he got from his Portuguese landlady, Maria Silva, a virago and a widow, hard working and harsher tempered, rearing her large brood of children somehow, and drowning her sorrow and fatigue at irregular intervals in a gallon of the thin, sour wine that she bought from the corner grocery and saloon for fifteen cents.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Therefore, the researchers say it is unclear whether the increased risk of heart failure, coronary heart disease and heart attacks reflect the direct impact of repeated pregnancies, or the stressors associated with rearing multiple children, or both.
(Pregnancy losses and large numbers of children linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, University of Cambridge)
Long time the silent ranks upon the hill could see a swirl and eddy deep down in the heart of the Spanish column, with a circle of rearing chargers and flashing blades.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
