verb
- Lay bare.
- usage: "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"
- Make public.
- usage: "She aired her opinions on welfare"
- Lay bare.
- usage: "denude a forest"
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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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
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