rear

English

/ɹɪɹ/, /ɹɪə/

verb
Definitions
  • (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
  • (transitive) To breed and raise.
  • (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs
  • (intransitive) To get angry.
  • (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
  • (transitive) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
  • (transitive) To construct by building; to set up
  • (transitive) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
  • (transitive) To lift and take up.
  • (transitive) To rouse; to strip up.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English reren (raise, rile, rear) inherited from Old English rǣran (raise, create, cause to rise, stir up, rear, set upright, give rise to, exalt, excite, build, promote, arouse, begin, rouse) inherited from Proto-Germanic *raizijaną (raise) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (arise, rise, lift oneself).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₁rey-

Gloss

arise, rise, lift oneself

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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