Verb
rear up (third-person singular simple present rears up, present participle rearing up, simple past and past participle reared up)
To rise up, especially an animal like a horse rising up on its rear legs.
I think I was one of those kids that I might not fight you if you stepped on my shoes or stole my lunch money or that kind of stuff. But if you picked on a girl or something like that, that would cause me to rear up a little bit. Will Shields
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. D. H. Lawrence
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. William Bartram
Jörmungandr will arise from the ocean, poisoning the land and sea with his venom and causing the sea to rear up and lash against the land. Source: Internet
The riders, or main"caixers", ride the horses through the streets and, along with a tumultuous crowd of people, encourage them to rear up on their hind legs. Source: Internet