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BARE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation
Example:
functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
Synonyms:
bare; plain; spare; unembellished; unornamented
Classified under:
Similar:
unadorned; undecorated (not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking in magnitude or quantity
Example:
a spare diet
Synonyms:
bare; scanty; spare
Classified under:
Similar:
meager; meagerly; meagre; scrimpy; stingy (deficient in amount or quality or extent)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Completely unclothed
Example:
a nude model
Synonyms:
au naturel; bare; naked; nude
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unclothed (not wearing clothing)
Derivation:
bareness (the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body))
Sense 4
Meaning:
Having everything extraneous removed including contents
Example:
the cupboard was bare
Synonyms:
bare; stripped
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
empty (holding or containing nothing)
Derivation:
bareness (an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Providing no shelter or sustenance
Example:
a stark landscape
Synonyms:
bare; barren; bleak; desolate; stark
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
inhospitable (unfavorable to life or growth)
Derivation:
bareness (an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Lacking its natural or customary covering
Example:
bare feet
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
bald; denudate; denuded (without the natural or usual covering)
naked (lacking any cover)
undraped (lacking drapery or draperies)
unroofed (having no roof)
Antonym:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
Derivation:
bareness (an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Lacking a surface finish such as paint
Example:
unfinished furniture
Synonyms:
bare; unfinished
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unpainted (not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat)
Derivation:
bareness (an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
Example:
the simple truth
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
plain (not elaborate or elaborated; simple)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Not having a protective covering
Example:
a bare blade
Synonyms:
bare; unsheathed
Classified under:
Adjectives
Derivation:
bareness (an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Just barely adequate or within a lower limit
Example:
a marginal victory
Synonyms:
bare; marginal
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
narrow (very limited in degree)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they bare ... he / she / it bares
Past simple: bared
Past participle: bared
-ing form: baring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lay bare
Example:
denude a forest
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "bare" is one way to...):
clear (remove)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bare"):
defoliate (strip the leaves or branches from)
burn off (clear land of its vegetation by burning it off)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They bare the trees
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make public
Example:
She aired her opinions on welfare
Synonyms:
air; bare; publicise; publicize
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "bare" is one way to...):
tell (let something be known)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bare"):
hype (publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner)
bulletin (make public by bulletin)
bring out; issue; publish; put out; release (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)
broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread (cause to become widely known)
air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 3
Meaning:
Lay bare
Example:
bare your feelings
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "bare" is one way to...):
expose; uncover (remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
At the further side the road winds through La Reolle, Bazaille, and Marmande, with the sunlit river still gleaming upon the right, and the bare poplars bristling up upon either side.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“That’s his cap, sir. Where in the world can he have gone to with his head bare? I thought he was safe in his bed an hour ago. Jim! Jim!” he shouted.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had an alarming way now when he was drunk of drawing his cutlass and laying it bare before him on the table.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It seemed to have swept the streets unusually bare of passengers, besides; for Mr. Utterson thought he had never seen that part of London so deserted.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He had been over this ground before, when it was bare, but now a village occupied it.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
At one we dined, Mr. Mell and I, at the upper end of a long bare dining-room, full of deal tables, and smelling of fat.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But the long cactus-strewn levels still stretched away, empty and bare, to the distant line of the cane-brake.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On one side was an old, brown house, looking rather bare and shabby, robbed of the vines that in summer covered its walls and the flowers, which then surrounded it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He discovered the mistake too late, when Thornton was abreast of him and a bare half-dozen strokes away while he was being carried helplessly past.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
