To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
Used in a Sentence
reared
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for reared.
Editorial note
In fact identical twins reared apart are much more similar than fraternal twins reared together.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of reared gathered in one view.
(transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
(transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for reared.
verb
To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
verb
(transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
verb
(transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
verb
(intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
Example sentences
In fact identical twins reared apart are much more similar than fraternal twins reared together.
For example, if a conflict of interest had actually reared its ugly head, that comment would be apropos.
As a Royal Prince your child would be reared with great expectations for their future.
This preference is evident in CAH girls who look like and are reared as girls...
It's the cost of participating in a job market where children are reared better.
Then complexity reared its ugly head - needed loops and conditionals and the tool mutated into the awful beast it is today.
Or you could compare twins reared apart to see if their abilities more closely track each other's or those of their adoptive parents.
After a few years of faithful service, a design flaw reared its head (no fan => hot computer) and killed the power supply.
I even wrote a airline-booking-system terminal program in Java, all before swing reared its ugly head!
Gox has been harming the Bitcoin ecosystem since back in 2011, when their incompetence, greed, and contempt for customers first reared its ugly head.
A tremendous proportion of the antibiotics we use are abused as growth promoters for animals reared for meat or their products.
I am really a total C# fanboy, though was reared on unix and c/c++/python/java.
Quote examples
I was very happy to get one of my guys a really good placement on the "technical career path" system when it reared its ugly head at the company.
The follow up question - "What can you do after delete this;?" - also reared it's head, and that's when I found the other edge to the sword and shied away from it's usage.
They’re made smart by their parents talking to them." This view is definitively disproven both by studies of adoptive children and by studies of twins reared apart (not to mention common sense—cognitive ability must be at least partly heritable, else there would be no way for ever smarter animals to have evolved).
Following Washington passing I-594 (removing the gun show background check loophole) with a vote of about 60% reared the ugly truth that at least 20% of Republican voters voted for this, something that is hard to reconcile with "Obama is coming for your guns".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use reared in a sentence?
In fact identical twins reared apart are much more similar than fraternal twins reared together.
What does reared mean?
To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
What part of speech is reared?
reared is commonly used as verb.