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Bare   /bɛr/   Listen
Bare

adjective
1.
Completely unclothed.  Synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude.  "Naked from the waist up" , "A nude model"
2.
Lacking in amplitude or quantity.  Synonyms: scanty, spare.  "A scanty harvest" , "A spare diet"
3.
Not having a protective covering.  Synonym: unsheathed.  "A bare blade"
4.
Lacking its natural or customary covering.  "Bare feet"
5.
Just barely adequate or within a lower limit.  Synonym: marginal.  "A marginal victory"
6.
Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications.  Synonyms: mere, simple.  "Shocked by the mere idea" , "The simple passage of time was enough" , "The simple truth"
7.
Lacking a surface finish such as paint.  Synonym: unfinished.  "Unfinished furniture"
8.
Providing no shelter or sustenance.  Synonyms: barren, bleak, desolate, stark.  "Barren lands" , "The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes" , "The desolate surface of the moon" , "A stark landscape"
9.
Having everything extraneous removed including contents.  Synonym: stripped.  "The cupboard was bare"
10.
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation.  Synonyms: plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented.  "Unembellished white walls" , "Functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
verb
(past & past part. bared; pres. part. baring)
1.
Lay bare.  "Bare your feelings"
2.
Make public.  Synonyms: air, publicise, publicize.
3.
Lay bare.  Synonyms: denudate, denude, strip.



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"Bare" Quotes from Famous Books



... rapidly, twisting the clothes around Gregg's thigh, which he had first laid bare by some dexterous use of a ...
— Ronicky Doone • Max Brand
... hardened upon the carriage windows in such thickness that I could scarcely scratch a peep-hole through it; but, from such glimpses as I could catch, the aspect of the country seemed pretty much to resemble the December aspect of my dear native land,—broad, bare, brown fields, with streaks of snow at the foot of ridges, and along fences, or in the furrows of ploughed soil. There was ice wherever there happened to be water ...
— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... red figures over the nearby dunes gave quick confirmation of her words. McGuire looked about him for a weapon—anything to add efficiency to his bare hands—and the swarm was upon ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various
... of the mind," alas! Must have its autumn—leafless, bare, When all these pleasing phantoms pass, And end in winter, age, ...
— Poems (1828) • Thomas Gent
... on his firm, bare feet to the little gate that led to the lonely cottage, and, without pausing, passed through. The cottage door was ajar. He pushed it back and entered, closing it, even as he did so, with a backward fling of the heel. Then, in the tiny living-room, by the light ...
— The Tidal Wave and Other Stories • Ethel May Dell


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