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rear

/ɹɪə/
verb
  1. To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.

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

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

  3. To rise up on the hind legs

    "The horse was shocked, and thus reared."

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