The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word REARED
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More clues leading to the result REARED
- Are in debt, but managed to bring up the children
- Carried by cardinal, organ brought up
- Brought up as left-winger absorbing Listener
- A case of rare wine bottles brought up
- Rose, about to enter study
- Cultivated vacant rogue facing a socialist
- Raised a roulette bet, following pair from Reno
- Brought up rule with listeners
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The straight part
We know that "brought up" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case brought up = reared.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does REARED mean?
REARED verb- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- To rise up on the hind legs
- (usually with "up") To get angry.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To lift and take up.
- To rouse; to strip up.
- To move; stir.
- (of geese) To carve.
- (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)