Bare word meaning and definition

[adjective] showing ground without the usual covering of grass; "a carefully swept bare yard around the house"
[adjective] completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waste up"; "a nude model"
[adjective] having extraneous everything removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"
[adjective] 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"
[adjective] without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"
[adjective] denuded of leaves; "the bare branches of winter"
[adjective] lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"
[adjective] not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"
[verb] lay bare; "denude a forest"
[verb] make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare"
[verb] lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"

\Bare\, a. [OE. bar, bare, AS. b[ae]r; akin to D. & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, OSlav. bos? barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bh[=a]s to shine ?.] 1. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare. 2. With head uncovered; bareheaded. When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. --Herbert. 3. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear! --Milton. 4. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. ``Uttering bare truth.'' --Shak. 5. 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 bare treasury.'' --Dryden. 6. Threadbare; much worn. It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. --Shak. 7. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. ``The bare necessaries of life.'' --Addison. Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth. --South. {Under bare poles} (Naut.), having no sail set.
\Bare\, n. 1. Surface; body; substance. [R.] You have touched the very bare of naked truth. --Marston. 2. (Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
\Bare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bared}(?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Baring}.] [AS. barian. See {Bare}, a.] To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
\Bare\ Bore; the old preterit of {Bear}, v.

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