lift, raise, rear, elevate, hoist, heave, boost mean to move from a lower to a higher place or position. lift usually implies exerting effort to overcome resistance of weight.

REAR definition: 1. at the back of something: 2. the back part of something: 3. a person's bottom. Learn more.

1. to take care of and support up to maturity: to rear a child. 2. to breed and raise (livestock). 3. to raise by building; erect. 4. to raise to an upright position: to rear a ladder.

If you rear a young animal, you keep and look after it until it is old enough to be used for work or food, or until it can look after itself.

the back of something, as distinguished from the front: The porch is at the rear of the house. the space or position behind something: The bus driver asked the passengers to move to the rear.

There are nine meanings listed in OED's entry for the word rear, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

Definition of rear noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

5 days ago · The rear is the back end of something, like the rear of a school bus or the members of the marching band who stand at the rear of the parade. At the other end of something's …

Rear definition: the back of something, as distinguished from the front.. See examples of REAR used in a sentence.

5 days ago · rear (third-person singular simple present rears, present participle rearing, simple past and past participle reared) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.