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View definitions for rear

rear

verb as in raise young

verb as in lift, rise

verb as in build

Strongest match

Weak matches

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Example Sentences

What if you just want eyes on the back of your head, you want forward and rear-facing cameras?

George Cook, a middle-age black man from the Bronx, brought up the rear.

Shouts came from the rear of the crowd for “no violence,” shouts that went largely unheeded.

At the rear end of the park is a wall or divider maybe six or seven feet high and about twice that wide.

Kitty staggered around the corner to the rear of her building, trying to make it home.

As the bright glow of a little cascade of sparks pierced the darkness, a voice in our rear called sharply: "Hands up!"

He went himself to the kitchen, which was a building apart from the cottages and lying to the rear of the house.

If we had shot 'em without discrimination, the cowards would have got bold, seein' that they weren't safer in rear than in front.

Going back we had some long range shots with the 15-inch guns at batteries in rear of Achi Baba.

So Lawrence find Harry rode ahead, the squad some fifteen or twenty paces in the rear, leisurely following.

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On this page you'll find 185 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rear, such as: behind, following, hind, hinder, last, and mizzen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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