[
US
/ˈbɛɹ/
]
[ UK /bˈeə/ ]
[ UK /bˈeə/ ]
VERB
-
lay bare
bare your breasts
bare your feelings -
make public
She aired her opinions on welfare -
lay bare
denude a forest
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking its natural or customary covering
bare feet
a bare hill -
just barely adequate or within a lower limit
a marginal victory
a bare majority -
lacking in magnitude or quantity
a bare livelihood
a spare diet
a scanty harvest -
lacking embellishment or ornamentation
a plain hair style
functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
unembellished white walls -
having everything extraneous removed including contents
the bare walls
the cupboard was bare -
not having a protective covering
a bare blade
unsheathed cables -
providing no shelter or sustenance
barren lands
the desolate surface of the moon
the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
bare rocky hills
a stark landscape -
apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
only the bare facts
the simple passage of time was enough
shocked by the mere idea
the simple truth -
lacking a surface finish such as paint
bare wood
unfinished furniture -
completely unclothed
a nude model
bare bodies
naked from the waist up
How To Use bare In A Sentence
- 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. Savages
- 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!
- I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
- Smith enforced a highly unpopular no-guns policy in the cowtown, and for the most part, made the law stick by beating the hell out of people with his bare hands. The Four Toughest Men of the Old West
- On a tree that is virtually bare, one can often see a solitary leaf still fluttering on a top twig. Times, Sunday Times
- Threadbare patches in her fur and mane shone dull against the her tawny pelt.
- The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.
- What wouldn't burn still remained: bare walls muffled with incongruous tapestries, flooring tamped over with carpets.
- The famous boxer killed a fierce wolf with his bare hands.
