reared
- 1Simple past and past participle of rear.
Their family reared cattle on the hillside for generations.
He was reared in a small village far from the city.
Note
A regular past form, and one spelling does double duty: the horse reared, the cattle were reared. The split that matters is transitivity. Only the transitive meanings (bringing up children, breeding and raising animals, lifting something high) can turn passive, as in was reared in a village. The intransitive ones, rising on the hind legs, towering above or getting angry, take have in the perfect but never be: the cliffs had reared above them.
reared is a form of rear
rear, verb: To care for and bring up children or young animals until they are fully grown; also, to breed and raise animals such as livestock. Full entry
- Spelling
- rear → reared: add -ed
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