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Rearing
[reer] 
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rear
[reer]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise young |
| Synonyms: | breed, bring up, care for, cultivate, educate, foster, grow, nurse, nurture, propagate, train |
| Notes: | one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | abandon, neglect |
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build |
| Synonyms: | construct, erect, fabricate, put up, raise, set up, uprear |
| Antonyms: | destroy |
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| Concept: | Rear. |
| Category: | 3. Centrical dimensions; special |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
rear, back, posteriority; rear rank, rear guard; background, hinterland., occiput, nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside, scut, breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone; natch, natch bone., stern, poop, afterpart, heelpiece, crupper., wake; train (sequence)., reverse; other side of the shield.
-verbs
be behind; fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear.
-adjectives
back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost; postern, posterior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal.
-adverbs
behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back., after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost, aback, rearward.
-phrases
ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio.
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| Antonyms: | front |
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| Main Entry: | background |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | experience or circumstances |
| Synonyms: | accomplishments, acquirement, actions, atmosphere, attainment, aura, backdrop, breeding, capacity, credentials, cultivation, culture, deeds, education, environment, framework, grounding, history, practice, preparation, qualification, rearing, seasoning, tradition, training, upbringing |
| Antonyms: | foreground |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise, nurture |
| Synonyms: | bring up, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, foster, instruct, nourish, rear |
| Main Entry: | breeding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivation of person |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, civility, conduct, courtesy, culture, development, gentility, grace, lineage, manners, nurture, polish, raising, rearing, refinement, schooling, training, upbringing, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | bring up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise youngster |
| Synonyms: | breed, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, feed, form, foster, nourish, nurture, provide for, rear, school, support, teach, train |
| Main Entry: | build |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | construct structure |
| Synonyms: | assemble, bring about, carpenter, cast, compile, compose, contrive, engineer, erect, evolve, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, frame, jerry-build, knock together, make, manufacture, model, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, reconstruct, sculpture, set up, superstruct, synthesize, throw together, throw up |
| Notes: | billed is having a beak or having been presented a statement of costs or charges, while build is to construct |
| Antonyms: | demolish, destroy, dismantle, knock down, raze, ruin, take down |
| Main Entry: | construct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, build |
| Synonyms: | build up, cobble up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up, create, design, dream up, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, hammer out, hoke up, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, prefab, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw together, throw up, trump up, uprear, whip up |
| Antonyms: | annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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