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

Freed from the domestic function of birthing and raising babies, the argument goes, women have chosen to prioritize other goals instead of child rearing. — Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2026

Turner was hardly alone among artists in devoting the same intensity of care to the enrichment of a painting that others give to the rearing of a child. — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2026

Accepting the best actress award, Ando Sakura said plainly that filmmaking and child-rearing could not be done together. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Nov. 2026

Agriculture Transforming farming, crop cultivation, and animal rearing. — Time, 15 Oct. 2026

His fascination culminated in the majestic Whistlejacket (1762), a life-size Arabian, hot-blooded and rearing. — Air Mail, 3 Oct. 2026

Family balance Allowing both parents to have sufficient time off to bond and adjust to their new roles can also have longer-term benefits within the family unit and contribute toward more equity in child rearing. — Megan Kuykendoll, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026

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

Verb

In the distance was a bronze statue of Louis XIV on a rearing horse in the majestic Place des Victoires, its stone pedestal stained by protesters’ splashes of red paint. — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Of late, vigilantes have been rearing their heads in the United States, Europe, and Japan. — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026

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