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bare

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[bair]

adjective

barer, barest 
  1. without covering or clothing; naked; nude.

    bare legs.

    Synonyms:
  2. without the usual furnishings, contents, etc..

    bare walls.

    Synonyms: , , ,
  3. open to view; unconcealed; undisguised.

    his bare dislike of neckties.

  4. unadorned; bald; plain.

    the bare facts.

  5. (of cloth) napless or threadbare.

  6. scarcely or just sufficient; mere.

    the bare necessities of life.

  7. Obsolete.with the head uncovered; bareheaded.



verb (used with object)

bared, baring 
  1. to open to view; reveal or divulge.

    to bare one's arms; to bare damaging new facts.

    Synonyms: ,

bare

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[bair]

verb

Archaic.
  1. simple past tense of bear.

bare

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/ ɛə /

adjective

  1. unclothed; exposed: used esp of a part of the body

  2. without the natural, conventional, or usual covering or clothing

    a bare tree

  3. lacking appropriate furnishings, etc

    a bare room

  4. unembellished; simple

    the bare facts

  5. (prenomial) just sufficient; mere

    he earned the bare minimum

  6. without a weapon or tool

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (tr) to make bare; uncover; reveal

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bare

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/ ɛə /

verb

  1. archaica past tense of bear 1

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • barish adjective
  • bareness noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bare1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English æ; cognate with Old Frisian ber, Dutch baar, Old Saxon, Old High German, German bar, Old Norse berr; akin to Armenian bok “naked,” Lithuanian ã, Russian Dzóĭ “bڴǴdz”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bare1

Old English æ ; compare Old Norse berr , Old High German bar naked, Old Slavonic Dzǔ barefoot
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Synonym Study

Bare, stark, barren share the sense of lack or absence of something that might be expected. Bare, the least powerful in connotation of the three, means lack of expected or usual coverings, furnishings, or embellishments: bare floor, feet, head. Stark implies extreme severity or desolation and resultant bleakness or dreariness: a stark landscape; a stark, emotionless countenance. Barren carries a strong sense of sterility and oppressive dullness: barren fields; a barren relationship. See mere 1.
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Apart from Boland the specialist bowling stocks are a little bare with the likes of Beau Webster and Green likely to fill the breach.

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Turner-Seed’s own writing lays bare a struggle for self-fulfillment, to reconcile the traditional values pushed by her Jewish immigrant parents with a restless need to discover and make her own way.

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Australia are the favourites here, but this was a baring of teeth - the Proteas are not going to roll over and have their tummies tickled.

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The performance consists of Tolokonnikova sitting at a bare wooden table inside of a corrugated steel structure resembling a Russian prison cell.

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News reports and social media accounts in Mexico have widely circulated images of U.S. agents in tactical gear facing off against protesters baring Mexican flags.

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When To Use

What else does bare mean?

Bare is UK slang for very or lots of.

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