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bare
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb bare has 3 senses
- bare(v = verb.contact) Array - lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings" is one way to expose, uncover
- bare(v = verb.communication) air, publicise, publicize - make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare" is one way to tell
- bare(v = verb.change) denudate, denude, strip - lay bare; "denude a forest" is one way to clear
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sample sentence:
They bare the trees
Adjective bare has 10 senses
- bare(s = adj.all) au naturel, naked, nude - completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model" Derived form noun bareness2
- bare(s = adj.all) scanty, spare - lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
- bare(a = adj.all) unsheathed - not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade" Derived form noun bareness3
- bare(a = adj.all) Array - lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet" Derived form noun bareness3
- bare(s = adj.all) marginal - just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
- bare(s = adj.all) mere, simple - apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"
- bare(s = adj.all) unfinished - lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture" Derived form noun bareness3
- bare(s = adj.all) barren, bleak, desolate, stark - 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" Derived form noun bareness3
- bare(s = adj.all) stripped - having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare" Derived form noun bareness3
- bare(s = adj.all) plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented - lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
Antonym: covered
CIDE DICTIONARY
bare, a. [OE. bar, bare, AS. bær; akin to D. & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, Oslav. bos barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bhās to shine.
Under bare poles (Naut.), having no sail set.
- Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare. [1913 Webster]
- With head uncovered; bareheaded. [1913 Webster]"When once thy foot enters the church, be bare." [1913 Webster]
- Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. [1913 Webster]"Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear !" [1913 Webster]
- Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Threadbare; much worn. [1913 Webster]"It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words." [1913 Webster]
- Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. Addison. [1913 Webster]"Nor are men prevailed upon by bare words." [1913 Webster]
bare, n.
- Surface; body; substance. [1913 Webster]"You have touched the very bare of naked truth." [1913 Webster]
- That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather. [1913 Webster]
To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast. [1913 Webster]
bare, v.
Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bare, adj. & v.
--adj.
1 (esp. of part of the body) unclothed or uncovered (with bare head).
2 without appropriate covering or contents: a (of a tree) leafless. b unfurnished; empty (bare rooms; the cupboard was bare). c (of a floor) uncarpeted.
3 a undisguised (the bare truth). b unadorned (bare facts).
4 (attrib.) a scanty (a bare majority). b mere (bare necessities).
--v.tr.
1 uncover, unsheathe (bared his teeth).
2 reveal (bared his soul).
--adj.
1 (esp. of part of the body) unclothed or uncovered (with bare head).
2 without appropriate covering or contents: a (of a tree) leafless. b unfurnished; empty (bare rooms; the cupboard was bare). c (of a floor) uncarpeted.
3 a undisguised (the bare truth). b unadorned (bare facts).
4 (attrib.) a scanty (a bare majority). b mere (bare necessities).
--v.tr.
1 uncover, unsheathe (bared his teeth).
2 reveal (bared his soul).
Idiom
bare contract Law a contract lacking a consideration and therefore void unless under seal. bare of without. with one's bare hands without using tools or weapons.
Derivative
bareness n.
Etymology
OE b{aelig}r, barian f. Gmc
THESAURUS
bare
Spartan, absolute, and, ascetic, austere, bald, bankrupt, bare-ass, bared, barren, basic, bland, blank, bleached, bleak, break the seal, bring to light, candid, characterless, chaste, clarified, clear, cleared, cold, common, commonplace, deep-worn, defoliate, defoliated, denudate, denude, denuded, deobstruct, depleted, deprive, desert, desolate, destitute, develop, devoid, direct, disclose, disclosed, discover, dismantle, dismask, disrobe, distilled, divest, divested, divulge, dog-eared, draw the veil, dried-up, dry, dull, elementary, emptied, empty, essential, exhausted, exhibit, expose, exposed, featureless, fleece, frank, free, fundamental, gymnosophical, hairless, hard, hatless, hollow, homely, homespun, homogeneous, impart, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, inane, indivisible, insipid, irreducible, lay bare, lay open, lean, let daylight in, let out, literal, manifest, matter-of-fact, mere, minimal, monolithic, naked, natural, naturistic, neat, nude, nudist, null, null and void, of a piece, open, open as day, open to all, open up, out-and-out, overt, patefy, peeled, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, pluck, primal, primary, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, purified, raise the curtain, raw, rectified, remove, reveal, revealed, rustic, scant, scanty, sere, severe, shear, sheer, shelfworn, shopworn, shorn, show, show up, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, sober, spare, stark, stark-naked, straight, straightforward, strip, strip bare, stripped, tell, threadbare, timeworn, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unarrayed, unattired, unblended, unblock, uncase, unclad, unclassified, unclench, uncloak, unclog, unclogged, unclosed, unclothed, unclutch, uncluttered, uncombined, uncomplicated, uncompounded, unconcealed, uncork, uncorrupted, uncover, uncovered, uncurtain, undecked, undecorated, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, undisguised, undo, undrape, undress, undressed, unembellished, unenhanced, unfilled, unfold, unfortified, unfoul, unfurbished, unfurl, ungarnished, unhidden, uniform, unimaginative, unkennel, unlatch, unleavened, unlock, unmask, unmingled, unmixed, unobstructed, unornamented, unpack, unplug, unpoetical, unrelieved, unrestricted, unrobed, unroll, unscreen, unseal, unsheathe, unshod, unshroud, unshut, unsophisticated, unstop, unstopped, unsupplied, untinged, untrimmed, unvarnished, unveil, unwrap, vacant, vacuous, void, well-worn, white, wide-open, with nothing inside, with nothing on, without a stitch, without content, worn, worn ragged, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn-downROGET THESAURUS
bare
Insufficiency
N insufficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompetence, deficiency, imperfection, shortcoming, paucity, stint, scantiness, none to spare, bare subsistence, scarcity, dearth, want, need, lack, poverty, exigency, inanition, starvation, famine, drought, dole, mite, pittance, short allowance, short commons, half rations, banyan day, emptiness, poorness, depletion, vacancy, flaccidity, ebb tide, low water, a beggarly account of empty boxes, indigence, insolvency, drain of resources, impoverish, stint, put on short allowance, do insufficiently, scotch the snake, Adj, insufficient, inadequate, too little, not enough, unequal to, incompetent, weighed in the balance and found wanting, perfunctory, deficient, wanting imperfect, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill- stored, ill-off, slack, at a low ebb, empty, vacant, bare, short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of, denuded of, dry, drained, unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished, unreplenished, unfed, unstored, untreasured, empty-handed, meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted, starved, starving, halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished, jejune, scant, scarce, not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price, scurvy, stingy, at the end of one's tether, without resources, in want, in debt, insufficiently, in default of, for want of, failing, semper avarus eget.Smallness
N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.Simplicity
N simplicity, plainness, homeliness, undress, chastity, simple, plain, homely, homespun, ordinary, household, unaffected, ingenuous, sincere (artless), free from affectation, free from ornament, simplex munditiis, sans facon, en deshabille, chaste, inornate, severe, unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished, bald, flat, dull, veritatis simplex oratio est.Divestment
VB divest, uncover &c (cover), denude, bare, strip, disfurnish, undress, disrobe &c (dress, enrobe), uncoif, dismantle, put off, take off, cast off, doff, peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay, expose, lay open, exfoliate, molt, mew, cast the skin.N divestment, taking off, nudity, bareness, undress, dishabille, the altogether, nudation, denudation, decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation, molting, exfoliation, trichosis, divested, bare, naked, nude, undressed, undraped, denuded, exposed, in dishabille, bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless, in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit, in puris naturalibus, with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked, bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand, out at elbows, barefoot, bareback, barebacked, leafless, napless, hairless.
Manifestation
N manifestation, plainness, plain speaking, expression, showing, exposition, demonstration, exhibition, production, display, show, showing off, premonstration, exhibit, indication, publicity, disclosure, openness panchement, evidence, manifest, apparent, salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent, in the foreground, notable, pronounced, flagrant, notorious, arrant, stark staring, unshaded, glaring, defined, definite, distinct, conspicuous, obvious, evident, unmistakable, indubitable, not to be mistaken, palpable, self-evident, autoptical, intelligible, plain, clear, clear as day, clear as daylight, clear as noonday, plain as a pike staff, plain as the sun at noon-day, plain as the nose on one's face, plain as the way to parish church, explicit, overt, patent, express, ostensible, open, open as day, naked, bare, literal, downright, undisguised, exoteric, unreserved, frank, plain-spoken, candid (veracious), barefaced, manifested, disclosed, capable of being shown, producible, inconcealable, unconcealable, no secret, manifestly, openly, before one's eyes, under one's nose, to one's face, face to face, above board, cartes sur table, on the stage, in open court, in the open streets, in market overt, in the face of day, face of heaven, in broad daylight, in open daylight, without reserve, at first blush, prima facie, on the face of, in set terms, cela saute aux yeux, he that runs may read, you can see it with half an eye, it needs no ghost to tell us, the meaning lies on the surface, cela va sans dire, res ipsa loquitur, clothing the palpable and familiar, fari quae sentiat, volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the.Disclosure
VB disclose, discover, dismask, draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain, unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel, take off the seal, break the seal, lay open, lay bare, expose, open, open up, bare, bring to light, divulge, reveal, break, squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch, let into the secret, reveal the secrets of the prison house, tell, breathe, utter, blab, peach, let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, betray, tell tales, come out of school, come out with, give vent, give utterance to, open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about, speak out, make public, unriddle, split, acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast, show one's hand, show one's cards, unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart, open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind, unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment, say the truth, speak the truth, turn King's evidence, Queen's evidence, acknowledge the corn, raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw off the mask, expose, lay open, undeceive, unbeguile, disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of, d_esillusionner, be disclosed, transpire, come to light, come in sight, become known, escape the lips, come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out, show its face, show its colors, discover itself, break through the clouds, flash on the mind.
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