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bare (ber)

adjective barer bar′er, barest bar′·est

    1. without the natural or customary covering bare wooden floors
    2. without clothing; naked bare legs
  2. without equipment, supplies, or furnishings; empty a bare room, a bare larder
  3. without embellishment; unadorned; simple; plain the bare facts
  4. without tools or weapons: obsolete except in bare hands
  5. threadbare
  6. no more than; mere a bare subsistence wage

Etymology: ME bar < OE bær < IE *bhoso-s < ? base *bhes-, to rub off > sand

transitive verb bared, baring bar′·ing

to make bare; uncover; strip; expose

Related Forms:

bare Idioms

lay bare

to open to view; uncover; expose
bare2 definition

bare (ber)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

bear

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bare Synonyms

bare

modif.

  1. Without covering

    exposed, uncovered, naked, stripped; see naked 1, open 4.

  2. Plain

    unadorned, simple, unornamented, stark; see modest 2.

  3. Without content

    barren, void, unfurnished; see empty 1.

  4. Without surplus

    scant, meager, insufficient; see inadequate 1. See syn. study at naked.


bare

v.

reveal, uncover, expose, unveil, strip, lay bare, divulge, publish, disclose; see also expose 1, reveal 1, strip 1, undress. See syn. study at strip.


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bare Usage Examples

Object

  • resemblance: Paul Durkin: small, ginger, bares a suspiciously close resemblance to Paul Scholes.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • strip: Unfortunately, these plantations strip the land bare of its lowland forest.

Modifies a noun

  • bone: On to these bare bones must be grafted a squad, with options.

Used with adjective complement

  • lay: Your house has been laid bare, how is your heart.. ... .

Modifying Another Word

  • rather: The county is rather bare of timber, which is owing to the very great demand for it in the fens.

Preposition: in

  • mind: Bare in mind they are based off things I have read rather than hard fact.

Preposition: of

  • vegetation: Soils which are bare of vegetation are very likely to be a problem.
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bare quotes

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the L hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The L hath made bare his holyarm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

-Bible (Old Testament)

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

-Motherwell, Robert

Pylons, those pillars Bare like nude, giant girls that have no secret.

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

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