Verb (used with object) : to rear a child. ,to rear a ladder.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The skyscraper rears high over the neighboring buildings.    From Dictionary.com. 

If technology in child-rearing is the first choice, reproducing should be the last choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why is my baby crying?! Try this new gadget | Sync Blog] Reference

So Mardas thanked him and said, Thou hast well requited our fosterage-pains in rearing thee, O.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Child rearing is growth and change in action, and every part of it is a stage waiting to pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 May « Becca’s Byline] Reference

And certainly the things we do in rearing our children provides another form of leisure activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Thus their labour in rearing them comes to be in vain; it were better for their country that they had never been born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

The Torontonian says bluntly, We would be in complete denial to say that every element of child rearing is interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motherhood is Boring – Globe and Mail article, by popular demand | Her Bad Mother] Reference

I can believe some folks have a hatred for parents who demand that the rest of society helps them in rearing their children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Champlain, in rearing his simple habitation at Quebec, had no other financial support than could be drawn from the fur trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian Cities of Romance] Reference

I attended to it's hurts, and succeeded in rearing it, and it became a great pet at Spring Hill, and accompanied me to England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

That allows Dawkins apologists to imply that nice respectable religious child rearing is OK, just don't cross some undefined line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins is still jumping the shark] Reference

Successful child-rearing is a shared responsibility that involves both masculine and feminine elements expressed by both men and women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor] Reference

The extent to which child rearing is truly a partnership is really a matter of common ground and open communication between the partners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaks, the Pipeline, and Me] Reference

Further, a reverse experiment was made by subjecting caterpillars of the Naples form to very low temperature in rearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin's Defenders Go Neo-Lamarckian] Reference

Another side industry is queen rearing, which is requires more advanced beekeeping skills, and that is a long-term goal of this project.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

To speak of children who have made the struggle for life with only animals for nurses and instructors is to recall the rearing of Cyrus in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

The other part of PRADAN's work is the development of skills, such as rearing poultry, improving irrigation techniques, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questions and Answers: Deep Joshi] Reference

Or is the “D” word rearing its ugly head?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Paul; After All] Reference

(You can apply the same point to, say, in-laws, marriage and child rearing.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Editor’s Desk] Reference

Jackie's own background didn't suggest a family tradition of warm child rearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Cocoon Of Values] Reference

Then there's the bribery theory of child rearing -- often effective in the short run.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Tweens] Reference

I shudder to think what a monster I would have become in the modern child-rearing era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Generation Me] Reference

These profiles in turn generate "" customized '' responses to child-rearing challenges.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Gurgles Really Mean] Reference

And can we start to understand that we are on some of the wrong child-rearing pathways?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timely Topic For A Holy Season] Reference

(The child-rearing icon turned vegan in 1991, claiming it cured him of a debilitating illness.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Got Soy Milk?] Reference

"" It was when child rearing became women's sole occupation that the anxiety level began to rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [As American As Blaming Mother] Reference

Also, there's been a general shift in the culture toward a more child-involved way of rearing kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father Time] Reference

I do not see mothers being relieved of bread-winning to concentrate on child-rearing any time soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ballad of the Working Mother] Reference

The monks are also becoming the Dr. Spock of dog rearing, with two successful books on the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monks Who Know How To Put On The Dog] Reference

Caroline seems to have adopted her mother's child-rearing philosophy, always putting her kids first.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Child Of Camelot] Reference

Their prime child-rearing years were also the time when they were supposed to be building a scholarly reputation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Group] Reference

Eighty percent of women bear children and 25 percent of working women work part-time, often to accommodate child rearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lies, Damned Lies And...] Reference

One reason is that many costs are typically gone: work expenses, child-rearing expenses and mortgage payments, to name just three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Serious] Reference

Freed of child rearing, they serve as the institutional memories of their community, the embodiment of a unique and characteristic culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture Club] Reference