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. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje:

   Perhaps this can provide a healing in some sense but ultimately a re-evaluation of our child-rearing processes, i'm hoping that it will create a dialogue and a collective therapy for those that are still suffering, and a healing because many of the Nigerian farmers don't actually go back for the children that were fostered.

2. Alexander Meitiv:

   We feel we're being bullied into a point of view about child-rearing that we strongly disagree with.

3. 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.

4. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy:

   I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

5. 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.