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The phrase "rearing up" is both correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to stand on one's hind legs or to lift oneself upright, often in a display of aggression or defiance. Example: The horse suddenly began rearing up, causing its rider to grip the reins tightly and try to calm it down.
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rearing up
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Present participle of rear up
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It kept rearing up and absorbing people.
Another horseman, his stallion rearing up, fell on his back.
Rearing up, especially if there were fillies around.
"He's kicking, rearing up, and trying to eat John alive this morning," Van Trump said.
The riding: the rising trot, canter, gallop, the rearing up, the bucking and the bolting off.
Drawings are handmade, the living sign of an ornery human intention, rearing up against a piety.
Soon, of course, she is rearing up fiercely and exposing her two little black fangs.
-- the Continental Divide, rocky peaks rearing up on either side of the ship.
Ahead, rearing up, huge bluffs appear, a vast, foreboding wall stretching across the landscape.
Anderson does well to fend off two very good short deliveries rearing up chinwards.
~ Its tassels writhing, rearing up identically ripe before a cobra moon, its tassels writhing, rearing up identically ripe, the corn drinks in the monotone of an enormous poly-pipe.
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