bare > define

verb

• Lay bare.
  • usage: "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"
• Make public.
  • usage: "She aired her opinions on welfare"
  • synonyms: publicize, publicise, air
• Lay bare.
  • usage: "denude a forest"
  • synonyms: denude, denudate, strip

adjective

• Completely unclothed.
  • usage: "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"
  • synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude
• Lacking in amplitude or quantity.
  • usage: "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
  • synonyms: scanty, spare
• Not having a protective covering.
  • usage: "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"
  • synonyms: unsheathed
• Lacking its natural or customary covering.
  • usage: "a bare hill"; "bare feet"
• Just barely adequate or within a lower limit.
  • usage: "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
  • synonyms: marginal
• Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications.
  • usage: "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"
  • synonyms: mere, simple
• Lacking a surface finish such as paint.
  • usage: "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"
  • synonyms: unfinished
• Providing no shelter or sustenance.
  • usage: "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
  • synonyms: barren, bleak, desolate, stark
• Having everything extraneous removed including contents.
  • usage: "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"
  • synonyms: stripped
• Lacking embellishment or ornamentation.
  • usage: "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
  • synonyms: plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented

• Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
• (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
• (a.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
• (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
• (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.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
• (a.) Threadbare; much worn.
• (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
• (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.
• (n.) Surface; body; substance.
• (a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
• of Bear.