Synonyms of rearing

rearing 1 of 2

noun

as in raising

Related Words

• raising
• upbringing
• parenting
• parenthood
• paternity
• fatherhood
• motherhood
• mothering
• fathering
• maternity
• caregiving
• caretaking

rearing

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verb

present participle of rear

1

as in breeding

to bring to maturity through care and education

watched a documentary on how wolves rear their young

Synonyms & Similar Words

• raising
• breeding
• fostering
• nurturing
• teaching
• feeding
• promoting
• educating
• watching
• nursing
• cultivating
• nourishing
• bringing up
• fathering
• disciplining
• attending
• mothering
• training
• instructing
• supplying
• schooling
• cradling
• preparing
• ministering (to)
• guiding
• leading
• furthering
• mentoring
• providing (for)
• enlightening
• indoctrinating
• minding
• forwarding
• showing
• advancing
• caring (for)
• tutoring
• directing
• shepherding
• edifying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• abusing
• mistreating
• maltreating
• ignoring
• neglecting
• mishandling
• ill-treating
• injuring
• harming
• hurting
• ill-using

2

as in erecting

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• erecting
• raising
• lifting
• hoisting
• pitching
• upraising
• setting up
• upending
• elevating
• bracing
• supporting
• putting up
• buttressing
• upping
• upholding
• craning
• hiking
• shoring (up)
• uplifting
• propping (up)
• heaving
• heightening
• boosting
• hefting
• jacking (up)
• picking up
• perking (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• flattening
• leveling
• demolishing
• tearing down
• razing
• knocking down

3

as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials

the city has plans for rearing a new convention center over the next two years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• building
• constructing
• assembling
• making
• creating
• erecting
• raising
• manufacturing
• establishing
• designing
• producing
• fabricating
• piecing
• making up
• putting together
• setting up
• confecting
• rebuilding
• shaping
• molding
• generating
• organizing
• putting up
• fashioning
• originating
• framing
• hammering
• beginning
• forging
• inventing
• initiating
• concocting
• instituting
• devising
• reconstructing
• inaugurating
• carpentering
• coining
• conceiving
• innovating
• fathering
• founding
• constituting
• imagining
• handcrafting
• retrofitting
• combining
• contriving
• prefabricating
• reassembling
• thinking (up)
• cooking (up)
• redeveloping
• uniting
• reedifying
• throwing up
• rigging (up)
• jerry-building

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismantling
• striking
• destroying
• wrecking
• dismembering
• disassembling
• ruining
• smashing
• flattening
• tearing down
• taking down
• shattering
• devastating
• demolishing
• pulverizing
• knocking down
• leveling
• razing
• exploding
• pulling down
• detaching
• demounting
• separating
• dividing
• blowing up
• disengaging
• ruinating
• disconnecting
• disuniting
• disjoining

4

as in growing

to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care

an amateur who rears rare orchids in a professional-grade greenhouse

Synonyms & Similar Words

• growing
• cultivating
• producing
• raising
• harvesting
• planting
• promoting
• tending
• cropping
• breeding
• culturing
• dressing
• propagating
• sowing
• sprouting
• reaping
• ripening
• rooting
• gathering
• gleaning
• germinating
• quickening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• killing
• picking
• digging
• plucking
• pulling (up)
• cutting
• uprooting
• extirpating
• mowing
• haying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rearing

Noun

Greer was also the author of Obama Music, a 2009 memoir about her personal connection to Chicago’s South Side contrasted with that of President Obama’s political rearing in the same community. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026

Some 500 horses, too, had to be moved out, some rearing and fighting as they were pulled into trailers. — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

Research shows that incorporating horticulture and expanding into cash crops raises farmers’ earnings, as does the rearing of livestock. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026

Given so much uncertainty about this rapidly evolving technology and its potential effects on kids, Suskind spends a lot of the book offering parents a practical guide for safely navigating child-rearing in the age of AI. — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 14 July 2026

The military base has been working with Zoo America North American Wildlife Park since 2011 to develop a captive rearing program. — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 30 June 2026

Cold-water releases can also help prevent rivers from heating up to lethal temperatures during critical spawning, rearing and migration periods. — Eric Palkovacs, The Conversation, 26 May 2026

Cultural differences on child-rearing take an extreme turn when child-protection services become involved, and the divisions reflect a bigger battle between conservative and progressive values. — Miranda Murray, USA Today, 24 May 2026

By at least acknowledging differing points of view on child rearing, parents give themselves the opportunity to borrow some from each approach. — Parents, 24 May 2026

Verb

The project reopened critical spawning and rearing habitat for river herring, American eel and sea lamprey. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026

The sequel sees Nicole Kidman’s Gillian Owens and Sandra Bullock’s Sally Owens rearing a new generation of witches, played by Joey King and Maisie Williams. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026

During spring and summer, those same ponds and lakes provided excellent nesting and gosling-rearing areas. — Mark Vrtiska, The Conversation, 30 July 2026

Was there a method to rearing such a fine student and good boy? — Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026

Lafayette Park is a seven-acre plot filled with green lawns, shaded walkways and five historic statues, the most prominent of which shows President Andrew Jackson on a rearing horse. — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 16 July 2026

The gift nearly doubles the Clark’s holdings of sculpture, and includes highlights like a pair of bronze sculptures of rearing horses by Fernandino Tacca. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 July 2026

In the third, coauthors Dan Janssen and Winnie Hallwachs spent more than 40 years collecting caterpillars in the forest and rearing them with the express purpose of seeing which parasitoid wasps tore their way out. — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 1 July 2026

For nearly two agonizing minutes, the bear runs toward her then backs away, rearing up on its hind legs several times, revealing its massive size. — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026