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. 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.

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. Craig Garfield:

   We now realize the transition to fatherhood is an important developmental life stage for men’s health, it’s a magical moment where so many things change in a man’s life. Now the medical field needs to think about how can we help these men of child-rearing age who often don’t come to the doctor’s office for themselves.