Bare
[beə] or [bɛr]
Definition
(verb.) lay bare; 'bare your breasts'; 'bare your feelings'.
(adj.) completely unclothed; 'bare bodies'; 'naked from the waist up'; 'a nude model' .
(adj.) having everything extraneous removed including contents; 'the bare walls'; 'the cupboard was bare' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) lacking its natural or customary covering; 'a bare hill'; 'bare feet' .
(adj.) lacking a surface finish such as paint; 'bare wood'; 'unfinished furniture' .
(adj.) lacking in amplitude or quantity; 'a bare livelihood'; 'a scanty harvest'; 'a spare diet' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) just barely adequate or within a lower limit; 'a bare majority'; 'a marginal victory' .
Editor: Rochelle--From WordNet
Definition
(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
Inputed by Jenny
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Naked, nude, denuded, uncovered, unclothed, undressed.[2]. Simple, sheer, mere.
v. a. Strip, uncover, make bare.
Checked by Lemuel
Definition
adj. uncovered: naked: open to view: poor scanty: unadorned: (Shak.) unarmed: mere or by itself: (Shak.) paltry desolate: empty: (Spens.) rude.—v.t. to strip or uncover.—adj. Bare′backed with bare back: unsaddled.—n. Bare′bone (Shak.) a very lean person.—adj. Bare′faced with the face uncovered: (Shak.) avowed: impudent.—adv. Bare′facedly.—n. Bare′facedness.—adjs. Bare′foot -ed having the feet bare often of some monastic orders; Bare′-gnawn (Shak.) gnawed bare; Bare′headed having the head bare; Bar′ish (Carlyle) somewhat bare; Bare′legged having the legs bare.—adv. Bare′ly.—ns. Bare′ness; Bare′sark a fierce Norse fighter a berserker.—adv. in a shirt only.
old pa.t. of Bear.
Checker: Rupert
Examples
- One of these fat bare-footed rascals came here to Civita Vecchia with us in the little French steamer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Bare logic, however important in arranging and criticizing existing subject matter, cannot spin new subject matter out of itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The slim, bare, copper wire snapped on the least provocation, and the circuit was down for thirty-six days in the first six months. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Gerald looked at him, and with a slight revulsion saw the human animal, golden skinned and bare, somehow humiliating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Friar bared his brawny arm up to the elbow, and putting his full strength to the blow, gave the Knight a buffet that might have felled an ox. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I bared my head to the rushing wind, which bathed my brow in delightful coolness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The dress of this person was that of a soldier, but the bared neck and arms, and the continued shrieks discovered a female thus disguised. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was impossible to decide otherwise than he had done: he must see Madame Olenska himself rather than let her secrets be bared to other eyes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He stretched out to me his other hand; I discerned the trace of manacles on his bared wrist. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is surprising in how many curious ways this gradation can be shown; but only the barest outline of the facts can here be given. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The barest notion of a State must include four or five men. Plato. The Republic.
- To her parents she never talked about this matter, shrinking from baring her heart to them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was wonderful to hear him talk about millions, and agios, and discounts, and what Rothschild was doing, and Baring Brothers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Lester