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

2 of 2

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

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

There’s no blanket answer for parenting or child-rearing. — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 15 May 2026

Some of her collaborators have already shown that pregnancy alters a mom’s hormones and brain structure in ways that are good for bonding and child-rearing. — The Atlantic, 14 May 2026

Being taught society’s standard eating rituals, so as not to disgust others by violating them, was certainly a useful part of ordinary child-rearing. — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026

Being incredibly prescriptive about child-rearing in that way can arguably be harmful because children are their own people, and part of growing up is making mistakes. — CNN Money, 25 Mar. 2026

Verb

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

An Oregon environmental group is suing the Department of the Interior to stop a timber sale in the Coast Range because Congress invalidated the BLM resource management plan that would have ordinarily guided the sale of about 1,300 acres of timber in sensitive salmon-rearing habitat. — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026

Surrounding the characters is woodland, a gothic mansion and two skyscraper buildings rearing on the horizon. — John Hopewell, Variety, 22 June 2026

In 1958, the US created its first fly-rearing facility in Florida and dropped sterile flies in affected areas. — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 22 June 2026

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has shared a breathtaking new view of the iconic Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) rearing its head 1,600 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 28 May 2026

Inflation is rearing its head again. — Ramtin Arablouei, NPR, 28 May 2026

Restoring habitat Loss of spawning and rearing habitat is one of the biggest long-term challenges for California salmon. — Eric Palkovacs, The Conversation, 26 May 2026