Synonyms for rearing
rear·ing

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1. raising, rearing, nurturenoun

   the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

   Synonyms:
   raising, nurture, fostering, lift, breeding, bringing up, upbringing, fosterage, elevation

   Antonyms:
   unerect

2. breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringingadjective

   helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

   "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

   Synonyms:
   education, breeding, fostering, nurture, facts of life, gentility, upbringing, training, bringing up, elevation, procreation, lift, raising, fosterage, reproduction, genteelness

   Antonyms:
   unerect

3. rampant(ip), rearingadjective

   rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile

   "a lion rampant"

   Antonyms:
   unerect

Matched Categories

1. • Heraldry
   • Upbringing

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1. rearingnoun

   Synonyms:
   elevation, raising, erection

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1. List of paraphrases for "rearing":

   husbandry, breeding, livestock, grow-out, upbringing, farming, ranching, nursery, magnification, stockbreeding, stockfarming, raising, farmed, herding, hatchery, stocking

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1. Andre Bakhos:

   Traders are looking for some stability coming off of the sharp decline yesterday, (They are) looking for a little more visibility coming from the trade front with China even as concern over inflation keeps rearing its head.

2. Ellen Bravo:

   They found that ... 70% of the men who take this time ... three year later, they are sharing child-rearing and we know all kinds of benefits for babies when they have this kind of involvement, not to mention the joy for the father.

3. Alessandro Rosina:

   In southern Europe, reciprocal help is an important value, for emotional and material reasons. Young people leave home later than their northern European contemporaries. They live close to their parents, so their parents can help with child-rearing and then they, in turn, take care of elderly parents. Because of COVID, this system is now in crisis.

4. Marcelene Cox:

   Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

5. Fumio Kishida:

   In thinking of the sustainability and inclusiveness of our nation’s economy and society, we place child-rearing support as our most important policy.