Synonyms of rearing

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noun

as in raising

Synonyms & Similar 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
• levelling
• 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
• levelling
• 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