English-Icelandic translations for rear
Definition of rear
- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster
- To breed and raise
- To rise up on the hind legs
- To get angry
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate
- To construct by building; to set up
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally
- To lift and take up
- To rouse; to strip up
- To move; stir
- To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, ''to rear to life''
- Underdone; nearly raw
- Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
- early; soon
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front
- Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest
- The buttocks, a creature's bottom
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of
Examples
- The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years
- The horse was shocked, and thus reared
- The monster slowly reared its head.
- to rear defenses or houses
- to rear one government on the ruins of another.
- Rere that goose!
- He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead
- the rear rank of a company
- sit in the rear seats of a car
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