REAR

Rear

In military parlance, the rear is the part of concentration of military forces that is farthest from the enemy . The rear typically contains all elements of the force necessary to support combat forces - food, medical supplies and substantial shelters, planners and command headquarters.

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rear

Noun

  1. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
  2. Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
  3. The buttocks, a creature's bottom

Verb

  1. To raise physically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
  2. To construct by building; to set up
    to rear defenses or houses
    to rear one government on the ruins of another.
  3. To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
  4. To lift and take up.
  5. To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
  6. To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle (cattle-rearing).
  7. To rouse; to strip up.
  8. To rise up on the hind legs, as a bolting horse.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To move; stir.
  2. To carve.
    Rere that goose!

Verb (etymology 3)

  1. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
  2. To sodomize

Adjective

  1. Underdone; nearly raw.
  2. Rare.

Adjective (etymology 2)

  1. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.

Adverb

  1. early; soon


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