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Bare

//bɛə// adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.

    "a bare majority"

  2. 2
    Naked, uncovered.

    ""I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet," the Centipede said. "I have to get my boots on again first.""

  3. 3
    Having no supplies.

    "a room bare of furniture"

  4. 4
    Having no decoration.

    "The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?"

  5. 5
    Having had what usually covers (something) removed.

    "The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves."

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  1. 6
    A lot or lots of. Multicultural-London-English, Yorkshire, not-comparable, slang

    "It's taking bare time."

  2. 7
    With head uncovered; bareheaded.

    "When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. / God is more there, then thou: for thou art there / Onely by his permiſſion."

  3. 8
    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. 9
    Mere; without embellishment. figuratively

    "bare essentials; bare necessities"

  5. 10
    Threadbare, very worn.

    "for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words."

  6. 11
    Not insured.

    "Before the company was formed, the firm went bare for about three months in 1985, but it now has prior acts coverage for that time."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking embellishment or ornamentation wordnet
  2. 2
    lacking in magnitude or quantity wordnet
  3. 3
    having no clothes on the body wordnet
  4. 4
    having everything extraneous removed including contents wordnet
  5. 5
    providing no shelter or sustenance wordnet
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  1. 6
    lacking its natural or customary covering wordnet
  2. 7
    lacking a surface finish such as paint wordnet
  3. 8
    apart from anything else; without additions or modifications wordnet
  4. 9
    not having a protective covering wordnet
  5. 10
    just barely adequate or within a lower limit wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Barely. dialectal

    "The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire."

  2. 2
    Very; significantly. Multicultural-London-English, slang

    "That pissed me off bare."

  3. 3
    Without a condom. slang

    "While none of the participants had complete confidence in condoms, they continued to use them as a better alternative than “going in bare"."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A suburb of Morecambe, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England, served by Bare Lane railway station (OS grid ref SD4564). countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    The surface, the (bare) skin.

    "In sad good earnest, sir, you have toucht the very bare of naked truth [...]"

  2. 2
    Surface; body; substance.

    "You have touched the very bare of naked truth."

  3. 3
    That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Verb
  1. 1
    To uncover; to reveal. figuratively, sometimes, transitive

    "She bared her teeth at him."

  2. 2
    simple past of bear form-of, obsolete, past

    "And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon"

  3. 3
    lay bare wordnet
  4. 4
    make public wordnet
  5. 5
    expose to view wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English baren, from Old English barian, from Proto-Germanic *bazōną (“to bare, make bare”).

Etymology 5

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