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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"

4.

Lacking its natural or customary covering. "Bare feet"

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

... (who are monarchs, too, in their way) govern their own dominions at home, where each man rules absolute. When the annals of each little reign are shown to the Supreme Master, under whom we hold sovereignty, histories will be laid bare of household tyrants as cruel as Amurath, and as savage as Nero, and as ...

— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray

... occupied for the moment in giving Captain Muspratt his instructions, had not witnessed the shot. But he turned at the shout which followed, caught sight of the bare flagstaff, and ordering his bugler to sound the "Cease firing," sent forward the captain at ...

— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... hearts of the people. Therefore we can never judge from the size of the monument the kind of work which was accomplished by the man who sleeps under it. Monuments are not only for ministers and warriors. We peasants can also erect monuments in our own way. To open a new paddy field, to plant the bare hillside with trees, these are our monuments. How lonely it would be for me if there were no monument left after my death. However small this paddy field may be, it will not be forgotten so long as it yields for your posterity the blessing of its rice crop." "Happily," the interpreter ...

— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

... horses and his men, like the king of France in the old rhyme, would be thought much of a dandy on the streets of London. On the contrary, if he could be seen with his dirty white cap and his faded purple shirt, and his little brown breeks that do not reach his knees, and the bare shanks below, and the bare feet stuck in the stirrup-leathers—for he is not quite long enough to reach the irons—I am afraid the little girls and boys in your part of the town might be very much inclined to give him a penny in charity. So you see that a very ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... collars, bare throats encircled with gold chains and pearls turned toward the captain's table. Frederick could not recall ever having had an experience so painfully humiliating. Ingigerd saw nothing and felt nothing. Achleitner, however, seemed to be rather ill at ease under ...

— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann

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