Cryptic crossword clue
Very keen to assume English parents’ duties 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word REARING

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The straight part

We know that "parents’ duties" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case parents’ duties = rearing.

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What does REARING mean?

1. To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
2. (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
3. To rise up on the hind legs
4. (usually with "up") To get angry.
5. To rise high above, tower above.
6. To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
7. To construct by building; to set up
8. To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
9. To lift and take up.
10. To rouse; to strip up.

1. To move; stir.
2. (of geese) To carve.
3. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)

1. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
2. To sodomize (perform anal sex)

1. Act of raising young.

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