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Bare

adjective

1.

Completely unclothed. Synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude. "Naked from the waist up" , "A nude model"

2.

Lacking in amplitude or quantity. Synonyms: scanty, spare. "A scanty harvest" , "A spare diet"

3.

Not having a protective covering. Synonym: unsheathed. "A bare blade" Antonym: sheathed.

4.

Lacking its natural or customary covering. "Bare feet" Antonym: covered.

5.

Just barely adequate or within a lower limit. Synonym: marginal. "A marginal victory"

6.

Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications. Synonyms: mere, simple. "Shocked by the mere idea" , "The simple passage of time was enough" , "The simple truth"

7.

Lacking a surface finish such as paint. Synonym: unfinished. "Unfinished furniture"

8.

Providing no shelter or sustenance. Synonyms: barren, bleak, desolate, stark. "Barren lands" , "The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes" , "The desolate surface of the moon" , "A stark landscape"

9.

Having everything extraneous removed including contents. Synonym: stripped. "The cupboard was bare"

10.

Lacking embellishment or ornamentation. Synonyms: plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented. "Unembellished white walls" , "Functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"

verb

(past & past part. bared; pres. part. baring)

1.

Lay bare. "Bare your feelings"

2.

Make public. Synonyms: air, publicise, publicize.

3.

Lay bare. Synonyms: denudate, denude, strip.

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"Bare" Quotes from Famous Books

... only came to tell me to be good to you, and help you, and trust you; and not worry you with my silliness and—and—jealousy. And I don't ever mean to. And I know he will be good friends with you yet. He praised you for working so hard;"—she pushed it a little beyond the bare fact;—"he always did that; and I know he's only waiting for a good chance to make it ...

— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells

... tonic to Paul. For the first time since his return to Vaux Abbey he had felt that a time might come when he would be able to escape altogether from those lingering, bitter-sweet memories which were all that remained to him now of Adrea. On the bare, windy moor, with the glow of physical exercise and excitement coursing through his veins, and Lady May's pleasant voice in his ears, that little scene in the rose-lit chamber seemed for a moment very far away. Adrea, with her soft, passion-lit eyes, and dusky, oriental ...

— A Monk of Cruta • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... dark curling hair and gentle brown eyes. Her cheeks were as rosy as the poppies, and she wore a gay little robe of scarlet and yellow striped stuff, while upon her bare brown feet were tied ...

— Christmas Light • Ethel Calvert Phillips

... country. Even at this dreary season the country had charms, which Mr. Bloundel, after his long confinement, could fully appreciate. His eye roamed over the wide prospect; and the leafless trees, the bare hedges, and the frost-bound fields seemed ...

— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

... that she waited for the approach of evening which would bring her lover. Him she felt it now absolutely of the last necessity that she should see; that she should once more go with him to those secret places, the very thougnt of which inspired her with terror, and, laying bare her soul to his eyes, demand of him the only restitution ...

— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms

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