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rear
Synonyms and Antonyms of rear
- Go to the back of the building and look out the rear window and you'll see the eagle.
rear
Synonyms and Antonyms of rear
- Amy fell off her skates onto her rear.
rear
Synonyms and Antonyms of rear
- watched a documentary on how wolves rear their young
- 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.
- The city has plans for rearing a new convention center over the next two years.
carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape
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, retrofit
put together
- an amateur who rears rare orchids in a professional-grade greenhouse
Synonym Discussion of rear
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- lift the chair while I vacuum
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- scouts raising a flagpole
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- suddenly reared itself up on its hind legs
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- elevated the taste of the public
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- hoisted the cargo on board
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- heaved the heavy crate inside
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- boosted his brother over the fence
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