WordNet
v. rear backwards on its hindlegs; "the frightened horse reared back"
start with anger or resentment or in protest
Usage examples of "rear back".
Very well-don't give a Democratic governor a Republican legislature and then expect him to rear back and pass a miracle.
And now it was her turn to rear back, the blood washing like a dark tide through the shadowy muscles of her face.
Hoxworth Hale started to rear back, as if he were about to tell his son that he would tolerate no nonsense about McKinley High School, but as words began to formulate he saw his son etched against the pale morning light, and the silhouette was not of Bromley Hoxworth, the radical essayist who had outraged Hawaii, but of Hoxworth Hale, the radical art critic who had charged Yale University with thievery.
She looked up to see the masked head rear back over her, spear bobbing from one shoulder.
Patrick would rear back, thrust out his lower lip, point and jabber disapprovingly.