bare has definitions from the field of clothing
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[ adjective ] denuded of leaves

Examples

"the bare branches of winter"

Used in print

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

During the summer he had tried to repair some of his losses at the track , and the bare trees reminded him that his pari-mutuel tickets would still be lying , like leaves , in the gutters near Belmont and Saratoga .

(Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)

Now the yard looked wet and bald , the trees bare under their buds , but in a while Miss_Ada 's flowers would bloom like a marching parade .

Related terms

leafless

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[ adjective ] (clothing) completely unclothed

Synonyms

naked nude au_naturel

Examples

"bare bodies" "naked from the waste up" "a nude model"

Used in print

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

Bare feet are better for such work than any form of slipper .

Related terms

unclothed

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[ adjective ] lacking in amplitude or quantity

Synonyms

scanty spare

Examples

"a bare livelihood" "a scanty harvest" "a spare diet"

Used in print

(Frances and Richard Lockridge, Murder Has...)

The twenty-three ( or twenty-two with the Paynes themselves omitted ) provided merely a place to start , and their identification was the barest of starts .

Related terms

meager

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[ adjective ] without the natural or usual covering

Synonyms

denuded bald denudate

Examples

"a bald spot on the lawn" "bare hills"

Used in print

(Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)

Only the top of the head , with a spot bare and white as a clamshell , remained visible .

Related terms

uncovered

5
[ verb ] lay bare

Examples

"bare your breasts" "bare your feelings"

Related terms

uncover

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[ adjective ] providing no shelter or sustenance

Examples

"bare rocky hills" "barren lands" "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes" "the desolate surface of the moon" "a stark landscape"

Related terms

inhospitable

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[ adjective ] showing ground without the usual covering of grass

Examples

"a carefully swept bare yard around the house"

Related terms

grassless

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[ verb ] make public

Examples

"She aired her opinions on welfare"

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[ adjective ] apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

Synonyms

simple mere

Examples

"only the bare facts" "shocked by the mere idea" "the simple passage of time was enough" "the simple truth"

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plain

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[ adjective ] lacking a surface finish such as paint

Synonyms

unfinished

Examples

"bare wood" "unfinished furniture"

Related terms

unpainted

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[ adjective ] just barely adequate or within a lower limit

Synonyms

marginal

Examples

"a bare majority" "a marginal victory"

Related terms

narrow

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[ adjective ] not having a protective covering

Synonyms

unsheathed

Examples

"unsheathed cables" "a bare blade"

Related terms

sheathed

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[ adjective ] having extraneous everything removed including contents

Synonyms

stripped

Examples

"the bare walls" "the cupboard was bare"

Related terms

empty

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 6373
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[ verb ] lay bare

Synonyms

strip denudate denude

Examples

"denude a forest"

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