Bare

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • adjective. Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked.
  • adjective. Exposed to view; undisguised.
  • adjective. Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration.
  • adjective. Having no addition, adornment, or qualification.
  • adjective. Just sufficient; mere.
  • adjective. Bareheaded.
  • transitive verb. To make bare; uncover or reveal.
  • transitive verb. To expose.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Old preterit of bear.
  • To make bare; uncover; divest of covering: as, to bare one's head or one's breast.
  • To disclose; make manifest; lay bare: as, to bare the secrets of the grave.
  • noun. That part of a clapboard, roof-slate, or the like, which is exposed to the weather when the roof is complete, as distinguished from the lap.
  • Naked; without covering: as, bare arms; the trees are bare.
  • With the head uncovered.
  • Open to view; unconcealed; undisguised.
  • Lacking in appropriate covering or equipment; unfurnished: as, bare walls.
  • Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish.
  • Threadless; napless.
  • Poor; destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished; unprovided with what is necessary or comfortable: absolutely or with of.
  • Empty; valueless; paltry; worthless.
  • Mere; scarcely or just sufficient: as, the bare necessaries of life; a bare subsistence.
  • Unaccompanied; without addition; simple.
  • Unadorned; without literary or artistic effect; bald; meager.
  • In beer-making, not completely covered by the bubbles formed in fermentation: said of the surface of beer.
  • Raw; excoriated.
  • Lean; spare.
  • The uncovered or unhidden surface; the body; the substance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Surface; body; substance.
  • noun. That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
  • transitive verb. To strip off the covering of; to make bare.
  • Bore; the old preterit of bear, v.
  • adjective. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked.
  • adjective. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
  • adjective. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
  • adjective. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
  • adjective. Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away.
  • adjective. Threadbare; much worn.
  • adjective. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else.
  • adjective. having no sail set.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Simple past of bear.
  • verb. To uncover; to reveal.
  • adjective. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
  • adjective. Naked, uncovered.
  • adjective. Having no supplies.
  • adjective. Having no decoration.
  • adjective. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
  • adjective. A lot or lots of.
  • adverb. Very; significantly.
  • adverb. Barely.
  • Word Usage
    "In what I call bare assent, there is no time-element in the feeling of belief, though there may be in the content of what is believed."
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    Equivalent
    Form
    Baring  bared  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    expose  uncover  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adair  Aer  Altair  Astaire  Ayre  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barren  naked  narrow  smooth  wooden  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Spartan  absolute  alone  and  ascetic  
    variant
    bear  
    verb-form
    bared  barely  bareness  bares  baring