bear vs bare

bear

Definitions

verb

  1. have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
  2. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
  3. be pregnant with
  4. have on one's person
  5. have
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noun

  1. an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price
  2. massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws

Examples

Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.

The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.

Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight.

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bare

Definitions

verb

  1. lay bare
  2. make public
  3. lay bare

adjective

  1. lacking its natural or customary covering
  2. just barely adequate or within a lower limit
  3. lacking in magnitude or quantity
  4. lacking embellishment or ornamentation
  5. having everything extraneous removed including contents
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Examples

Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk.

He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.

His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten!

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