rear
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Is rear a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of rear?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.Examples: "He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue."transitive
2. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.Examples: "The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years."transitive
3. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.Examples: "The horse was shocked, and thus reared."Synonyms: pranceintransitive
4. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.intransitiveusually
5. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.intransitive
6. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.Examples: "Poverty reared its ugly head. (appeared, started, began to have an effect)"; "The monster slowly reared its head."; "In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss; he reared me."literarytransitive
adv (English)
1. (British, dialect) early; soonExamples: "Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear!"Britishdialectalnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.Examples: "When the fierce Foe hung on our brok'n Rear"
2. (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.Synonyms: rear end
verb (English)
1. (transitive, vulgar, British) To sodomize (perform anal sex)Britishtransitivevulgar
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To move; stir.transitive
2. (transitive, of geese) To carve.Examples: "Rear that goose!"transitive
3. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)Examples: "He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead."obsoleteregional
adj (English)
1. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.dialectal
2. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.Examples: "Fred ordered a rear steak along with a glass of beer as he took a seat at an empty table"US
Definition source: Wiktionary