Meaning of BARE
| Pronunciation: | | behr
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- [adj] showing ground without the usual covering of grass; "a carefully swept bare yard around the house"
- [adj] completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waste up"; "a nude model"
- [adj] having extraneous everything 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] without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"
- [adj] denuded of leaves; "the bare branches of winter"
- [adj] lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"
- [adj] not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"
- [v] lay bare; "denude a forest"
- [v] make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare"
- [v] lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"
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| | Synonyms: | | air, au naturel(p), bald, barren, bleak, denudate, denudate, denude, denuded, desolate, empty, grassless, inhospitable, leafless, naked, nude, publicise, publicize, stark, strip, stripped, unclothed, uncovered, unfinished, unpainted, unsheathed |
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| | See Also: | | beam, bring out, broadcast, bulletin, burn off, circularise, circularize, circulate, clear, defoliate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, expose, issue, pass around, propagate, publish, put out, release, send, spread, tell, transmit, uncover | |
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| | Definition: | | Bare
In this memoir by a sex worker, the author tells how she chose to become a stripper at the famous Lusty Lady in Seattle, how she left it and got a degree at Columbia University, and then, after a year working as a journalist, returned to stripping. She tells what she gained and lost in her decision, and reflects on life on stage and off for her and her coworkers. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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