rear back (English, verb)
expansion: rear back (third-person singular simple present rears back, present participle rearing back, simple past and past participle reared back)
Senses:
qualifier: usually a horse
glosses: To stand on two rear legs, as an aggressive or fearful gesture.
raw_tags: of a quadruped
glosses: To stand, pull back or otherwise reposition oneself, often as a sudden response to a change or in preparation for an imminent reaction.
tags: broadly
raw_tags: of a person
Forms:
form: rears back
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rearing back
tags: participle
present
form: reared back
tags: participle
past
form: reared back
tags: past