bare

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When you kick off your shoes to walk on the beach, you are enjoying the feeling of your bare feet in the warm sand. The adjective bare describes something or someone that is naked or unclothed.

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Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

Verb
lay bare; "denude a forest"

Verb
make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare"

Verb
lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"

Adjective S.
showing ground without the usual covering of grass; "a carefully swept bare yard around the house"

Adjective S.
completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"

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Adjective S.
having extraneous everything removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"

Adjective S.
providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

Adjective S.
without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"

Adjective S.
denuded of leaves; "the bare branches of winter"

Adjective S.
lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"

Adjective
not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"


a.
Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

a.
With head uncovered; bareheaded.

a.
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

a.
Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.

a.
Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.

a.
Threadbare; much worn.

a.
Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.

n.
Surface; body; substance.

n.
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

a.
To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.


Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.


of Bear


Bare

Bare , a. [OE. bar, bare, AS. b'91r; akin to D. & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, OSlav. bos barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bh'bes to shine .] 1. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare. 2. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
3. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear !
4. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. "Uttering bare truth." Shak. 5. Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." Dryden. 6. Threadbare; much worn.
It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words.
7. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. "The bare necessaries of life." Addison.
Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth.
Under bare poles (Naut.), having no sail set.

Bare

Bare, n. 1. Surface; body; substance. [R.]
You have touched the very bare of naked truth.
2. (Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

Bare

Bare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bared(); p. pr. & vb. n. Baring.] [AS. barian. See Bare, a.] To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

Bare

Bare. Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

Surface; body; substance.

To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

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Usage Examples

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

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