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42 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• rear v. (Transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
• rear v. (Transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
• rear v. (Intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
• rear v. (Intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
• rear v. (Intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
• rear v. (Transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
• rear v. (Transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
• rear v. (Transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
• rear v. (Transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
• rear v. (Transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
• rear adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
• rear adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
• rear n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
• rear n. (Military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
• rear n. (Anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
• rear v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
• rear v. (Transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).
• rear v. (Transitive) To move; stir.
• rear v. (Transitive, of geese) To carve.
• rear v. (Regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
• rear adj. (Now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
• rear adj. (Chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Swedish
  • rear v. Present tense of rea.

— English words, defined in German —

• rear S. Das Heck, der Fond.
• rear S. Das Hinterland.
• rear S. Die Rückseite eines Hauses.
• rear S. Umgangssprachlich: der Hintern.
• rear S. Militär: die Nachhut.

— English words, defined in French —

• rear adj. Arrière, de derrière.
• rear adv. (Désuet) (Royaume-Uni) Tôt, bientôt.
• rear n. Arrière, derrière.
• rear n. (Militaire) Arrière-garde.
• rear n. (Anatomie) Derrière.
• rear v. Élever.
• rear v. (Agriculture) Élever, pratiquer l’élevage.
• rear v. Lever.
• rear v. Éduquer.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• rear adj. Atrás.
• rear adj. Trasero.
• rear s. Parte posterior.
• rear v. Criar.
• rear v. Educación.

110 English words from 23 English definitions

above anal anal␣sex Anatomy and angry animals army back behind Being bottom breed bring bring␣to bring␣to␣life bring␣up bring␣up␣to Britain building buttocks carve cause chiefly comes construct dialect dialectal early educate eggs elevate fleet foster geese get high hind hind␣legs hindmost in␣order instruct Intransitive last legs life lift lift␣up literary maturity meats metaphorically Military morally move nearly Now obsolete of␣an offspring only on␣the order part people perform phrase physically place Present Present␣tense quicken raise rare raw rea rear Regional rest revive rise rise␣up rouse said secure set set␣up sex sodomize soon Specifically spiritually stationed stir strip take take␣up tense that the towards tower Transitive Underdone up␣on up␣to usually vulgar which with

16 English words from 19 foreign definitions

Agriculture Arrière Arrière-garde Das der derrière die Fond garde Hauses Heck Hinterland Lever Parte posterior Uni

1 foreign word from 23 English definitions

last␣in

21 foreign words from 19 foreign definitions

Anatomie Atrás bientôt Criar Désuet Educación Éduquer eines élevage Élever Hintern Militaire Militär Nachhut pratiquer Royaume Royaume-Uni Rückseite Tôt Trasero Umgangssprachlich

183 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

reard rear'd rearm rears reards reared rearer rearly rearms rear␣up Rearden Reardon rearend rear-end rear␣end rearers rearest reareth reargue Rearick rearing rearise rearmed rearose rearray Rearsby rearset rears␣up rear␣back Reardens Reardons reared␣up rearends rear-ends rear␣ends rearfoot reargued reargues Rearicks rearings rearisen rearises rearmice rearming rearmost rearouse rearrays rearrest re-arrest rearrive +133 words

177 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

'Are'are arears Brears Crears Creary drears dreary Frears Grears prearm areared area␣rug arrears corears Crearys drearer firearm fire␣arm forearc forearm fore-arm fore␣arm prearms uprears arearing area␣rugs area␣rule barearse bare-arse Brearley Brearses Brearton coreared drearest drearier drearily drearing firearms fire␣arms forearcs forearms karearea McCreary prearmed there␣are unreared upreared arrearage barearses Brearleys +127 words

14 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

arear Crear drear Frear Grear arrear corear uprear inner␣ear outer␣ear pain␣in␣the␣rear bring␣up␣the␣rear cauliflower␣ear pains␣in␣the␣rear

6 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ear EAR 'ear rea Rea REA

4 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Aer aer- aër- Rae

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

arré rare

88 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

aberr airer arare arber Arber arder arear armer Armer Arner arred arrer arret arrêt arrey Arrey arrie arter Arter barer barre Barre barré berra Berra carer Carre Cerra crare Crear darer drear farer farre Ferra Frear gerra Grear Harer Harre Herra marre parer Raber racer Racer Rader rager Rager raker Raker +37 words

24 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Aer aer- aër- are Are ARE Åre A.R.E. arr ARR arr. ear EAR 'ear era ERA err Err. Rae rar RAR rea Rea REA

41 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

bear Bear dear Dear fear Fear gear Gear hear jear Kear lear Lear mear near Near pear RBAR read Read reaf reak real Real ream Ream rean reap reas reax Reay REER repr. roar sear Sear tear wear Wear -wear year

8 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

ear EAR 'ear rar RAR rea Rea REA

4 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

reair rebar Recar retar

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