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vb. (present participle of rear up English)
Usage examples of "rearing up".
At the base of the mound, they gazed at the solid mass rearing up, searching in the bright moonlight for a way onto the calved bulk.
As Valeria plunged into the leafy screen a backward glance showed her the Titan rearing up fearsomely on his massive hinder legs, even as Conan had predicted.
They reeled and tumbled, a crumbling mass of quaking masonry, with the red tower rearing up among them like a poisonous red flower from charnel-house ruin.
The shrieking of the Dark grew to an intolerable peak, a high triumphant whinnying, and Will knew without sight that before him in the darkness the great black stallion was rearing up as it had done outside the hut in the woods, with the Rider there to strike him down if the new-shod hooves did not do their work.
Despite what Lan said, he could imagine the skull-faced man suddenly rearing up.
Hairs pulled free of his scalp and slithered snakelike up his imprisoned limbs, to the place on his left shin where the legging under his boot had been so carefully soaked in his own blood: a place where that dark fabric was already stirring and roiling, rearing up .
Isparla recoiled, rearing up on the bed, and Nanue slapped her back, hard.