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1. | [ adjective ] denuded of leaves | |
Examples: | "the bare branches of winter" |
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Related terms: | leafless | |
2. | [ adjective ] (clothing) completely unclothed | |
Synonyms: | naked nude au_naturel | |
Examples: | "bare bodies" "naked from the waste up" "a nude model" |
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Related terms: | unclothed | |
3. | [ adjective ] lacking in amplitude or quantity | |
Synonyms: | scanty spare | |
Examples: | "a bare livelihood" "a scanty harvest" "a spare diet" |
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Related terms: | meager | |
4. | [ adjective ] without the natural or usual covering | |
Synonyms: | denuded bald denudate | |
Examples: | "a bald spot on the lawn" "bare hills" |
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Related terms: | uncovered | |
5. | [ verb ] lay bare | |
Examples: | "bare your breasts" "bare your feelings" |
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Related terms: | uncover | |
6. | [ adjective ] providing no shelter or sustenance | |
Synonyms: | desolate bleak stark barren | |
Examples: | "bare rocky hills" "barren lands" "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes" "the desolate surface of the moon" "a stark landscape" |
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Related terms: | inhospitable | |
7. | [ adjective ] showing ground without the usual covering of grass | |
Examples: | "a carefully swept bare yard around the house" |
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Related terms: | grassless | |
8. | [ verb ] make public | |
Synonyms: | publicize air publicise | |
Examples: | "She aired her opinions on welfare" |
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Related terms: | tell publish circulate go_around bulletin air publicist | |
9. | [ adjective ] apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | |
Synonyms: | simple mere | |
Examples: | "only the bare facts" "shocked by the mere idea" "the simple passage of time was enough" "the simple truth" |
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Related terms: | plain | |
10. | [ adjective ] lacking a surface finish such as paint | |
Synonyms: | unfinished | |
Examples: | "bare wood" "unfinished furniture" |
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Related terms: | unpainted | |
11. | [ adjective ] just barely adequate or within a lower limit | |
Synonyms: | marginal | |
Examples: | "a bare majority" "a marginal victory" |
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Related terms: | narrow | |
12. | [ adjective ] not having a protective covering | |
Synonyms: | unsheathed | |
Examples: | "unsheathed cables" "a bare blade" |
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Related terms: | sheathed | |
13. | [ adjective ] having extraneous everything removed including contents | |
Synonyms: | stripped | |
Examples: | "the bare walls" "the cupboard was bare" |
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Related terms: | empty | |
14. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 6373 | |
15. | [ verb ] lay bare | |
Synonyms: | strip denudate denude | |
Examples: | "denude a forest" |
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Related terms: | clear burn_off defoliate denudation | |
Similar spelling: |
Barre bar Barrie Baur Barr Bair Bahr Baer Bayer Bauer barye Barry Barra Baier Baehr barrow Barrio Baro Bari Bara |