Thesaurus
rear
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of REAR
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to bring to maturity through care and education <watched a documentary on how wolves rear their young>
Related Words father, mother; attend, care (for), cradle, cultivate, mind, minister (to), nurture, watch; discipline, educate, instruct, mentor, school, teach, train, tutor; edify, enlighten, indoctrinate; feed, provide (for), supply; advance, forward, further, promote; prepare; direct, guide, lead, shepherd, show
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to fix in an upright position <it took all the men in the village to rear the frame for the barn, pulling hard at the ropes until all the sides were standing>
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to form by putting together parts or materials <the city has plans for rearing a new convention center over the next two years>
Synonyms assemble, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up
Related Words carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape; prefabricate; begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up); reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [British], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, unite
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