Meaning

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

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

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

• To rise up on the hind legs

  "The horse was shocked, and thus reared."

• (usually with "up") To get angry.

• To rise high above, tower above.

• To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.

  "The monster slowly reared its head."

• To construct by building; to set up

  "to rear defenses or houses"

• To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.

• To lift and take up.

• To rouse; to strip up.