REAR

(CARE FOR) [verb] [T] - to care for (young animals or children) until they are able to care for themselves, or to care for (animals) in order to use them for foodSome women have made a deliberate choice to rear a child alone. See also child-rearing at child.He describes how these birds rear their chicks.The farmer's wife hand-reared (= fed and cared for) the tiny lambs when their mother died.The scientists tracked one lot of infected meat back to the farms where the animals/cattle/pigs/etc. had been reared (= in order to be used as food).